Word: reines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give President Conant's speech free rein, the Dunster House Forum "Can the Humane Tradition Be Preserved in the Liberal Arts College?" will get under way at 9 o'clock tonight, rather than 8 o'clock, as was previously announced...
This was followed by a really staggering warning from Anglophobe Dr. Sun Fo, President of Chungking's Legislative Yuan and son of China's George Washington, Sun Yatsen. Said Dr. Sun: "If the United States and Britain intend to allow Japan free rein in the Far East while they are finishing off Hitler, as seems to be indicated in recent speeches by [Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty A. V.] Alexander* and Knox, there is grave doubt in Chungking as to the wisdom of China's continuing to fight...
...University of Michigan Medical School. Three years later, a serious, dignified young M.D., he returned to practice with his father. Although he assured people he was going to be "the greatest surgeon in the world," the farmers mistrusted him because of his youth and even his father kept tight rein on him. But when he was 27, Dr. Will asserted himself...
Elsewhere, Torsoists Grable and Mature perform agreeably, under a tight directorial rein. Miss Grable does not, as one enthusiastic studio publicist put it, "overcome the handicap of possessing one of the finest figures in the nation," but she is pleasantly subdued, works hard, neither sings nor dances. Mr. Mature, who occasionally slips his diction and looks as if he needs more sleep, is every inch the matinee idol (height, six-foot-two-and-a-half; weight, 198 Ib.; chest, 45 in.; waist, 33 in.). Says he: "Sometimes I can't see what the girls...
...show a scholarly understanding of Bach worthy of the most erudite academician, yet there is plenty of original vigor; one doesn't feel that this is just another exercise in composition being backed over. Villa-Lobos handles the counter-point perfectly smoothly, and inside this frame-work gives free rein to his own ideas. In the Fugue possibly he confines himself more rigidly to his master--every element, down to the very intervals, is after Bach, so that the highly syncopated rhythm seems a trifle artificial and forced. But the piece as a whole is remarkably successful, and shows what...