Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Bob Shaw was back in Carnegie Hall with proof that, wherever he has been sitting for the past 24 months, he has found some of the answers-if not yet all the right ones. For the first of an ambitious series of seven concerts featuring choral "masterworks" since Bach, he presented his professional 40-voice Robert Shaw Chorale arranged behind a 45-piece orchestra. In the opening Mozart Requiem he proved that he now has one of the most highly trained and carefully blended chorus-and-orchestra combinations in the world, capable of far more clarity than...
...proof of his theory of relativity, Einstein said, would be the observation of a slight bending of light rays from distant stars as they pass through the gravitational field...
...fact that the author of the short-circuit plan wondered "if Conant is aware of the situation" is proof enough that the Council's move is a last-ditch affair; by taking such a position, Council members have risked an anti-climax that may kill the controversy for good. We hope that, better versed in Sociology, they will reverse last Monday's vote and return to the dull but more effective realm of proper channels...
...tags are not always found, and even when they are, they are not taken as certain proof of identity. Fingerprints which can be checked against the FBI's master file in Washington are considered certain proof. Not until identity has been established beyond doubt are the next of kin notified and the remains sent home...
Gods, Graves & Scholars, by C. W. Ceram. The big men and big moments of modern archeology; proof that digging can be dramatic (TIME...