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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adjudged good, mediocre or bad. And it is here that astrology's scientific pretensions are tested, and fail. If astrology works in any way other than intuition on one side and faith plus hope on the other, the key question for modern man is "How?" The how of things seldom bothered the Babylonians, for whom a mountain might fly through the air or the sun stand still. Later it was assumed that some kind of emanations issued from heavenly bodies to affect the characters and destinies of men. When scientists found no emanations powerful enough, sophisticated astrologers abandoned causality altogether...
QUARTET FOR FLUTE AND STRINGS, K. 285; QUARTET FOR OBOE AND STRINGS, K. 370; QUINTET FOR HORN AND STRINGS, K. 407 (Telefunken). This new recording of some seldom heard but thoroughly charming Mozart is ably presented by the Strauss Quartet, a group of young German instrumentalists, and three agile collaborators. Particularly outstanding is Hermann Baumann's dazzling horn playing in the quintet; he seems to be daunted neither by enormous leaps nor precipitous scales and ornaments...
...years ago, but in another sense nothing has really changed. Harvard prizes academic freedom fiercely and it has long been a community in which reasoned dissent is tolerated easily. "The place has always been exciting," says Dean Glimp. "It's just exciting now in different ways." College authorities seldom try to direct the mores of the students nowadays, but that is not so much a sign of new permissiveness as it is a continuation of the old policy of treating undergraduates as responsible adults capable of thinking for themselves. As a result, bitter confrontations have been...
...find--that they are regarded as subordinates and outsiders to be processed, graded, labeled, and sent forth. They had hoped that they would have as a group a place and a share in the departmental and University communities. They feel that the graduate student body is a fifth wheel seldom remembered when plans are considered and priorities are established...
Supertechies of the 40-60 hours per week variety sometimes go through this kind of withdrawal after a year or two or three of tech overdoes. They're seldom academically inclined to begin with, and can hide form academics enough to almost flunk out, or end up on probation...