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...within the Harvard Yard. Because their department is not always in tone with the restraint of Mower freshmen, these citizens of the area have been termed undesirable by the University's finest. Attempts were made to curb access to this haven and locking the gates at 8 was the simplest solution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Open Up Those Early Gates | 1/18/1955 | See Source »

...structure of the planets, including the earth, can be understood best by studying the behavior of matter under very high pressure. Such is the theory of Astrophysicist William Henderson Ramsey of Britain's University of Manchester. The simplest example is Jupiter, which Ramsey thinks is made largely of hydrogen. Near the surface where pressure is low, the hydrogen is in gaseous form. Deeper down it turns into a nonmetallic solid. It is still too light to account for the density of Jupiter's interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pressure Metals | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...concert began, the reasons for the success of the work practically hammered at the listeners' ears: this kind of music sounded big and flashy without forcing the audience out of its after-dinner stupor. The chorus sang the simplest kind of melody, from mild love lyrics and nursery-rhyme interludes to rowdy drinking songs and Teutonic gallops, set against passages of syncopated whispering and of sudden, surprising fortissimos. The orchestra sometimes provided halfhearted modernities, medieval primitivisms. Its percussion section was usually busy as a steam calliope on circus day. Most of the lyrics were in vulgarized but vital Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Puffed-Rice Cantata | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

Simple Beauty. Matisse's style was sinuous as Chinese brush drawing, clearcut as Persian miniatures, and sometimes as flat as Turkish rugs; his art had ancestors around the globe. Beauty of the most serene and sensuous sort, achieved by the simplest means possible, was always his goal. He never tired of it, and consistently splendid triumphs of the pursuit flowed from his brush until he died. No 20th century painter had higher esthetic standards-or met them more often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rainbow's End | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...first, and perhaps the simplest method, is to reply, "Why no, I haven't been across, not recently that is. Of course, I lived there until I was eight, but then . . . you know . . . the Nazis . . . had to leave (your voice should break about here) . . . wouldn't go back for the world . . . memories you know. But (brighten up here) don't you think I've done wonders with that beastly German accent?" Since the only accent you posses is a slight Oxford drawl, picked up during occasional inter-House meals at Eliot, your listeners can not but be impressed...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam and Gene R. Kearney, S | Title: Globemanship: II | 10/1/1954 | See Source »

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