Word: purcelle
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Out of the Past. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the M.I.T. program is the most ambitious ever undertaken to modernize high-school physical science courses. Its steering committee includes such names as Nobel Prizewinners Edward Purcell and I. I. (for Isidor Isaac) Rabi, M.I.T.'s President James Killian...
The first of the three offerings, The Majesty of the Law, based on a short story by Frank O'Connor, is the tale of a village patriarch who suffers from an excess of pride. It is a feeling often easier to portray by word than to dissect on film...
The result: Onward, Christian Soldiers, which was to become one of the great hymns of all time (George Bernard Shaw even suggested that the early Christians anticipated it on their way to face the lions). The curate who wrote the famous words* in such a hurry was the Rev. Sabine...
Despotism & Love. Baring-Gould spent the last 43 of his 90 years at Lew Tren-chard, a manorial estate on the western edge of Dartmoor, on which he inherited the position of squire from his father. The Trenchard vicarage was at the squire's disposal, and Baring-Gould nominated...
Since Barbara Louise Smith, 19, has the best soprano voice of anyone in her class at the University of Texas' College of Fine Arts, it was only natural that she should win the starring role in the college's annual full-dress opera. Last October she was cast...