Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prokofiev: Oratorio, Op. 124 (Choirs and State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R. conducted by Samuel Samossoud; Vanguard). Prokofiev's latest (1950) composition to reach U.S. shores. The message is the expected and politic one of the clear skies and a bright future, but there is plenty of drama in the ten movements, provided by scenes from World War II (climax: Stalingrad) and a warmhearted, slightly Wagneresque lullaby...
...Clerk Said No. The son of Samuel W. Vance, a Port Huron, Mich. circuit court judge, Harold Vance got through high school with average grades, went to work for his father's law partner after his father died. He tried for an appointment at West Point, but flunked the entrance exams and went to work...
...Samuel A. Stouffer, director of the Laboratory of Social Relations and a member of the planning committee for the program, said that demands from business and government as well as education for men in this field are "utterly fantastic...
Last week, after 121 years, Samuel Smith was still contributing his mite, but this time to another sort of cause. Three months ago Brooklyn Lawyer Arthur Levitt, a member of New York City's school board, proposed that New York schoolchildren sing parts of Smith's anthem at the start of each day. Up until then the mention of God had been practically taboo in the public schools, and Levitt had offered his idea as a substitute for a regular morning prayer, to which secular groups strenuously objected. Last week after months of worried debate, the school board...
...Brighter Sun, by Samuel Selvon. The marriage and dreams of a pair of teen-age Trinidadians; a fresh and authentic first novel by a young West Indian (TIME...