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Phi Beta Kappa & a Nobelman. A proud and portly man with a flair for oratory and a willingness to travel 25,000 miles a year to plead Howard's cause, Johnson has seen his budget swell from less than $956,000 to $5,658,500. His enrollment has climbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Captain of the Capstone | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

Mitropoulos, who usually conducts from memory, opened the score, apparently in deference to Oistrakh's nerves. The violin entered almost at once, spinning out a long, yearning melody in a rhythm that was at once syncopated and plodding. Violinist Oistrakh applied his tight, concise tone to it. He revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shostakovich Premi | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

In "English 123," "Selected Plays of Shakespeare," Professor Harry Levin becomes Elizabethan actor and director. His recitation and analysis of six of the Bard's plays is usually a smash hit with the ground lings assembled in New Lecture-on-Kirkland.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Register Revisited | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

The Congress opened with what Peking Radio called a "thunderous standing ovation" for Chairman Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou Enlai. That done, the delegates listened to a mournful recitation of China's economic woes by Chief Planner Li Fu-chun. Nearly three years after the announcement of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Decades of Effort | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

A critic faced with the task of writing about Seventh Heaven has an almost insoluble problem, since everything in the show is so bad that his review is almost bound to collapse into a dreary recitation of failures. I can think of only one positive comment: this last musical of...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: "Seventh Heaven" | 5/18/1955 | See Source »

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