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...fields and forests was a stocky, monkish fellow in a Basque beret and rimless glasses, cocking an ear to all the amorous twittering, and furiously scribbling music on manuscript paper clipped to a board. It was French Composer Olivier Messiaen, 58, elder statesman of the far-out realm of 20th century music, gathering new themes for his compositions. "Birds are the greatest musicians," he insists. "You will never find in their song a mistake of rhythm, melody or counterpoint...
...insurance is not adequate, Union Oil will presumably have to bear the brunt of the claims. Conceivably, Union could fight back by entering a countersuit against the British government for, of all things, piracy. Although British fighter planes bombed the ship "in defense of the realm," the Torrey Canyon at the time was actually outside British territorial waters...
...time while on a summer job inspecting telephone switchboards?McDonnell chanced upon an obscure book about psychic emanations: Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, by English Essayist Frederic W. H. Myers. It turned his interest abidingly toward the occult. "I was fascinated with the idea that this realm of the mind and soul and survival after bodily death ought to be susceptible to investigation through a scientific approach," says McDonnell. Rebuffed by one of his Princeton professors when he asked for help in such an inquiry, the eager student attended every séance he could find; he seriously...
...While Playboy may be the realm of the bunny, TIME is sometimes the realm...
...China has haunted-and usually eluded-the Western mind ever since travelers set out to find the dream of golden-roofed Cathay. In the Renaissance, Matteo Ricci, the Italian Jesuit who reported on China under the Ming dynasty, praised the country's "orderly management of the entire realm." In the Age of Reason, Leibniz suggested that what Europe needed was Chinese missionaries to teach "goodness." In the Victorian era, the U.S. Protestant missionary Arthur H. Smith was shocked by China's "indifference to suffering." The Chinese seemed sober, industrious, cheerful, polite and stoical. But they also seemed superstitious...