Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...file glowing reports about 23-year-old Van Cliburn's performances, and his triumph as a winner of the first piano prize. At the request of Cliburn's parents, Moor became a kind of ex-officio manager of Van's, traveled with him constantly, collecting research and protecting him from the constant demands on his time. The two soon found that they had a lot in common: Moor grew up in Texas not far from Van; each had studied piano with a pupil of Arthur Friedheim's, who in turn was a pupil of Liszt...
...sprawling (five major agencies plus a score of hospitals, colleges, research institutes) Department of Health, Education and Welfare, teetotaling Methodist Arthur Flemming, 52, brings one of the U.S.'s longest, best records as a Government administrator and personnel expert. In 1939 President Franklin Roosevelt named New York-born Art Flemming, then director of the School of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Washington's American University, as a Republican member of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Flemming has been in and out of Government ever since...
...Chief Rabbinate that the center will house -Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Itzhak Nissim, plus their staffs of scholars and law courts-has jurisdiction over marriage, divorce and many disputes affecting the personal status of Israelis. The rabbinate-which is already staffing its research departments with Talmudic scholars for the job-is breaking new ground in setting itself up as chief authority among the world's Jews in interpretation of the Talmud...
...graduate school trains people for research, the kind of deep research being done by faculty members, which results in books and articles relevant to the non-academic world. The graduate course should, and in most cases does, encourage this kind of work. Just as the bright secondary-school student is encouraged to participate in college-type courses, the top undergraduates can become acquainted with the graduate discipline...
...individualized professional training. The Government Department, too, is in the process of revising its program. But whereas graduate training is made more rigorous on its higher levels, the conference courses remain static. Although both graduates and undergrads are nominally subject to the same requirements, the long paper, the research project, the extensive bibliography, and special examination questions are aimed at the graduate. Moreover, in many cases any grade lower than B-plus is considered unsatisfactory for the graduate...