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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order that the faculty be able conveniently to offer such courses, the report suggested that the various science departments increase their staffs where necessary and that in filling new positions due attention be given, as is rarely the case at present, to the problem of elementary instruction...
...While the News Chronicle reported that "A few churchmen have been appalled ... but most of them are enthusiastic," the Musical Times was gravely wounded in its austere sensibilities. In the the lead article of its December, 1957, issue, the Times editorialized with scholarly ire, "The trouble arises at the present day because of the cleavage betwen 'popular' and 'serious' music, a cleavage unknown in earlier times." But the editor's revulsion could not be long held in check: "A certain kind of popular music is nowadays inevitably associated with the fetid atmosphere of a nightclub, dance hall or cabaret...
Except for singers, dancers, and actresses, participation will be restricted to Lowell House residents, Rinzler said. Casting will begin this spring, and the cast will return early in the fall to present the show during the second week of the term...
...these two new books about present-day Russia, one is an information-packed Baedeker; the other is a cry from the heart. Correspondent Levine. who for the past three years has broadcast from Moscow for NBC. got the idea for his volume from a weekly radio program in which he answered questions sent in by U.S. listeners. (Sample: Are there chiropractors in the U.S.S.R.? Answer: No, but chiropractic techniques are used.) Like a less history-conscious Gunther. Author Levine ranges over the surface of Soviet life, from shops to prisons, from tractor stations to "stereokino." The book is larded with...
Thurs., Feb. 5 Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Berkeley Square, John Balderston's sentimental compression of time past and time present, is a little old by now, but John Kerr, Jeannie Carson and Edna Best dress it up handsomely. Color...