Word: roland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Astronomers all over the world were readying their telescopes this week for Comet Arend-Roland. which is about to make an appearance from behind the glare of the sun. This week it should become visible just after sunset, low in the northwest. It will soon climb higher in the sky, but since it will be moving away from the sun, it will gradually lose brilliance, become invisible to the naked eye about June...
There is a chance that Comet Arend-Roland will be the first really bright comet since 1910 (Halley's, not due to be seen again by earthlings until about 1984), but astronomers hate to make predictions about comets. Far from behaving like respectable members of the solar system, they are skittish and unpredictable. They wax and wane capriciously. Some of them grow magnificent tails; others...
Shadow Land. Dean of the scholars is Pere Roland de Vaux, a French Dominican priest who has spent the last 24 of his 53 years in Palestine. Archaeologist de Vaux supervises the publication of the fragments, leads the periodic expeditions to the Qumran ruins. (Features of a typically rugged day there: Mass at 5:30 a.m., digging in the merciless heat until 3 p.m., paper work amid clouds of mosquitoes until midnight.) De Vaux's fellow priest, Polish-born Father Joseph Milik, 35, who left Warsaw when the Communists took over, is known as the Scrollery's fastest...
...panel is finished, it gets a coat of liquid, transparent enamel, and is baked and hardened in an oven. With sunlight or artificial light behind it, the panel is incandescent. The process, first developed by Jean Crotti. a Parisian. 30 years ago, was perfected six years ago by Roland Malherbe, another Parisian, and was launched by his father, Roger, on a major scale this month...
...will compose and conduct two pieces for Stuttgart's festival of popular music, has agreed to compose and arrange the music for Roland Petit's fall variety show and to co-star with Chevalier in a 13-week stand at the Théátre Alhambra. But he still casts a wistful look back at the classical career he planned for himself. "It's difficult to be a composer of serious music," he says. "You have to be convinced that you're terrific, or you're nothing. It's not the same as popular...