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...Lanky, roughhewn Glenn Seaborg has more qualifications for running the AEC than mere desire. He is a top-rank nuclear scientist. He was a co-discoverer of the element plutonium, crucial in the development of the atom bomb. That achievement won him a 1951 Nobel Prize. His work in the laboratory has been continuously fruitful. Asked what he does, he answers with calculated simplicity: "I discover elements." To date he has been instrumental in adding nine more to the periodic table...
Triumph & Tension. A more impressive contribution to the Met's new season came later in the week with a Boris Godunov, orchestrated by Dmitry Shostakovich. In its 75-year history, Mussorgsky's roughhewn but powerfully felt work ("I lived on Boris and in Boris," the composer once said) has appeared in several versions, including two by the composer himself and two schmalzier ones by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov. This season the Met decided to try the version scored by Shostakovich in 1940 but never before presented on the U.S. stage. The result is a brassy, full-throated Boris...
...atonalist back in the days before the tone row had replaced the velvet neckcloth as a musical status symbol. But in contrast to the cool, desiccated manner of European twelve-tone composers of the Schoenberg-Webern school, Riegger turned out propulsive, ruggedly rhythmic compositions full of jangling dissonances and roughhewn contrasts. The effect was sometimes as startling as an impressionist-styled canvas executed with a house painter's brush...
...Roughhewn, farm-bred Herschel Loveless did not go to college, got a job as a railroad worker in Ottumwa, was the city's street superintendent when his handling of a 1947 flood turned him into a local hero and set him up for election ao mayor in 1949. Consistently underestimated by the dominant G.O.P. , even after he beat Incumbent Governor Leo Hoegh in 1956, he exploited his old-shoe manner to win easy re-election in 1958, began to look like a political Music Man to rebrassed Democrats and out-of-tune Republicans...
...native of Pittsburgh. N.Y., DeForest Clinton Jarvis graduated from the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and in 1909 opened an office in Barre (pop. 12,000), headquarters of the granite-for-tombstones industry. He concentrated on diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Now 78, a roughhewn, granitic specimen, he still treats a few patients in an office whose windows are blazoned with his name in letters almost a foot high...