Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROLAND H. BERG Science and Medicine Editor Look Magazine Manhattan...
...what is wrong rather than talking about quelling student outbursts." John Michael, a University of Kansas senior, argued that students would be disillusioned by Nixon's stand "because it seems to eliminate any form of dissent." Nixon has "contributed to the polarization of left and right," declared Roland Trope, a senior at the University of Southern California. "He forces the mid-left and the mid-right to make a choice, and so depopulates the center of its buffers. This is more dangerous than anything else...
Wish Fulfillment. In embryonic form, all of these Nabokovian traits and interests are present in The Waltz Invention. The hero, Salvator Waltz (Roland Hewgill), is a paranoiac who believes himself to be the possessor of a potentially earth-destroying machine that makes ordinary bombs look like firecrackers. Awaiting an interview with the Minister of War (Henry Thomas) of a kind of Balkan republic, he imagines how the interview will go and how his threats will be honored. The play therefore takes the form of megalomaniacal wish fulfillment, rather like Hadrian...
...give a concert in Boston, than in New York. Here she is an "accepted commodity"--in New York you have to break in again each time you play. At a concert recently, Miss Vosgerchain was playing as accompanist to a friend. A tall black woman, the daughter of Roland Hayes, came to her afterwards. "I've never heard of you," she said, "but I simply must have you as my pianist...
...Swedish bishop; of an internationally famous biologist who told a friend that he expected the Third Reich to crumble. All were condemned to death. To be sure, Rehse served only as a member on the bench of one of Hitler's most notorious political judges, "Raving Roland" Freisler, who escaped the Allies' justice by dying in an air raid at the war's end. But the Federal Court noted last year that German judges always act collectively...