Word: section
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nazis by sailing for Crete on a yacht, was rescued when the yacht was sunk by German planes. During assignment to Allied North African Headquarters, he worked with many Americans now in key spots in Washington, including Dwight Eisenhower. Later he became British head of the Anglo-American political section of Allied Control Commission in Italy, then, in 1944, troubleshooter in liberated Greece. After the war, he helped reorganize Britain's Foreign Service in line with "Eden Reforms," then got plenty of experience wrangling with the Russians when he was sent to Vienna, in 1949, first as minister, later...
...tour (31 concerts) will alernate with Belguim's Andre Cluytens. Schuricht, a kinetic 76, conducted with broad, firm gestures that belied his frail appearance, seemed to be perfectly in tune with the Viennese. The audience was plainly delighted from the moment the orchestra's famed string section started to play-or rather, to sing. In Mozart's short Symphony No. 23, written when he was 17, the orchestra brought out a remarkable feeling of adolescent sentimentality-the oboe solo in the andante section positively swooned-as well as hints of emotional deeps. Beethoven's Egmont Overture...
True Cross Section. Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn taught at Brandeis until his death in January. Columnist Max Lerner and Critic Louis Kronenberger commute from Manhattan to give courses. E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish and W. H. Auden have lectured on modern poetry, and such theater celebrities as Marc Con nelly and Arthur Miller have taught contemporary drama. "A school," says Sachar, "is not a curricular philosophy. It is the people you bring...
...more difficult, however, to type the residents of each dorm at Radcliffe than of each Harvard House, chiefly because of the mobility of residence from year to year. Freshmen are original assigned to dorms with the intention of creating a typical cross-section rather than a characteristic atmosphere, but they are allowed to change dorms in succeeding years...
Contrast the picture of courageous Bishop Ordass shown in your Oct. 22 Religion section with the pictures of Christ. I'll wager the true Christ looked more like Bishop Ordass and the Middle Ages' conception of Christ than the silly, grinning, effeminate, puffy-cheeked companion by Painter Ivan Pusecker...