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Cocil M. Bowra, warden of Wadham College and professor of Poetry at Oxford University, will lecture on "Prometheus Unbound" at 8 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. This is one of a series of talks on "The Romantic Imagination" being given by Professor Bowra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowra to Speak | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

...learned to use fire. He lived in the early Ice Age, from 300,000 to 500,000 years before Peking Man, hitherto the earliest known user of fire. In honor of both his fire-bringing record and his prophetic skills, the new little man was named Australopithecus prometheus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The First Fireman | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...obeisance to the forces of classisicism and/or ingenuousness. This seldom comes off very well because of the contradiction between the nature of the music and of the performer. Sunday it was a Haydn Sonath and a Schubert Impromptu, both of which suffered from the prevailing atmosphere of a Prometheus bound within too-narrow emotional limits. The pieces were both miscast as an overture, but that was the role they were forced to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Box | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

Until the question of priority is settled, Element 61 will have no official name. Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium. Mr. Glendenin wants to call it prometheum after the Greek god Prometheus, giver of fire. One convention wag suggested grovesium, after loud-mouthed Major General Leslie R. Groves, military chief of the atom bomb project. Chemical symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nervous Elements | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...Agenda. In Rockefeller Center, before the gilded statue of Prometheus, the American Association for the United Nations was industriously hammering together a set of flagpoles, loudspeakers and rostrums for the celebration of "United Nations Week." Westchester County's Tarrytown had somehow been appointed "model United Nations community," and forthwith broke out in a rash of red-white-&-blue bunting. While 10,000 enthusiasts besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Omdurman to Flushing | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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