Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outcome of the election could not be laughed off. Furthermore, the blame could not be brushed off on the pollsters (see below), politicos and pundits, or even on the stupidity or slyness of the voters. The blame, as a few top editors sadly admitted in their painful soul-searching after election day, lay primarily on the press itself...
...letter came Thursday from a Radcliffe girl called Anabel Handy who was angry about a review of Signature that had appeared on this page the day before. That review was written by me; and after due consideration of her letter, a profound scarch of my own soul, and deep thought about the nature of the universe, I have decided that there is but one course for a man of conscience and honesty to take. But being what I am, I can't face asking Miss Handy to take over my job starting Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Instead...
Science & Soul-Wrestle. At Cambridge, he was "a complete failure in the lab" but a success at theory: "Quantum mechanics had just begun to come into existence. It was a very exciting time in physics. Anyone could just get in there and have fun." At Cambridge, Oppenheimer met some of the leaders in the fellowship of physics-such men as Max Born, Paul Dirac, and Niels Bohr ("It would be hard to exaggerate how much I venerate Bohr...
...other intellectual matters throughout his story puts too many distractions between Adrian and the reader. But it is also true that some of the most brilliant writing in Faustus comes in these unexpected asides. The section describing Adrian's deal with the Devil (he sells himself body & soul for 24 years of creative greatness) is a tour de force-translated from archaic German into archaic English-that is a unique reading experience in or out of context. So is the subtle, near-perfect sketch of the fast-talking music impresario Saul Fitelberg...
...This time, the musicians of the Orchestre National of France (France's equivalent of England's BBC orchestra) were greeted only by a French welcoming committee and a handful of curious bystanders. But these 96 men were just as determined as their predecessors to reveal the great soul of France. And they had France's best conductor to lead them, Charles Münch, who will become permanent conductor of the Boston Symphony next fall (TIME, April...