Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...administration gave us all a strong measure of support. There were no cadres, intrigues, and hardly a confrontation. The students pleaded eloquently, and we responded responsibly. Parietals was not the issue; we engaged the larger question of student responsibility in matters of dormitory life. In the end, everyone gained. Sol Gittleman Chairman Committee on Student Life
...action shattered a 40-year tra dition of university autonomy. As armored cars rumbled onto the almost-deserted campus, several thousand sol diers fanned out and arrested the first 500 students they could find. They also seized 34 professors. When other stu dents demonstrated against the invasion, riot cops cracked down with billy clubs, tear gas and nausea gas, clapped an other 500 demonstrators into jail. Thousands of students retreated to the cam pus of the huge Polytechnic School. They were so certain that the army would invade there, too, that they put up signs reading WELCOME, SOLDIERS...
...knocking on wood or chanting "God bless you!" (to prevent the sneezer's soul from flying away). Even so, modern behavioral scientists respect superstition as an enduring expression of the human need to master the inexplicable. "One man's superstition is another's religion," contends Anthropologist Sol...
...goal set for the company in 1940 by its founder, Architect Richard Pleasant. Since then, however, Ballet Theater has all too frequently strayed off on a series of unrewarding paths. After Pleasant entered the U.S. Army during World War II, the company came under the direction of Impresario Sol Hurok, who attempted to re-create it as a new "Ballet Russe," with an endless parade of show boating guest stars. In the mid-'50s, Ballet Theater embarked on a dreary succession of new dances, most of which were forgotten when the curtain came down. In addition to continual confusion...
...SOL BABITZ Early Music Laboratory Los Angeles