Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near-explosive force, sending up clouds of gas. Coming at 8:05 p.m., the rumbling shock tumbled dishes all over town. At the colliery, the miners' wives looked at the tagboard and waited. Only a few sobbed. Within an hour volunteer rescuers arrived, each toting 45 Ibs. of special oxygen equipment, and started down the 13,800-ft. shaft. Eighty-one survivors were brought up, their faces blank with shock. But the faces of the others were not to be seen, except in death...
...Vicki Mariles is two years under the official minimum age for international competition, was competing only by courtesy of a special dispensation from the Fédération Equestre Internationale. But Mariles is no ordinary name in international horsemanship. Her father, Brigadier General Humberto Mariles, 45, is one of the world's great horsemen, helped make Mexico a power in the equestrian world. For long, toilsome hours Vicki and her older brother Humberto Jr., now 18, worked under their father's exacting eye to master Mariles' jumping style, in which the rider stays firmly...
...bass to high C). She has the unusual gift of moving from one register to another with no perceptible shift in the quality of her singing, which is almost always unerringly accurate and clear, rarely marred by the edginess or brassy reverberations that afflict some singers. Her special glory is the spun-out, floating high note-which Tebaldi achieves, seemingly without effort, by paying out huge breaths in small, even quantities...
...Dublin slums, he educated himself between odd jobs (railway porter, cook, butcher, postman), went to sea and found no romance in it. His history and temperament have preserved him from the British novelist's preoccupation with class and the detail of social life. He writes with no special idiom or accent about the human condition. Hanley has been obsessed by his purblind Furys for a quarter of a century. (This volume is the fifth installment of their saga, the third to be published in the U.S.) Those who treasure the art of fiction above entertainment will read...
...theory behind this policy is that the student will specialize during his last year, taking courses in the century in which his thesis falls. But since the first draft of the thesis in to be completed by December, no course taken in Senior year can have very much bearing on it, and students will want to take courses relevant to their special area prior to starting work on the thesis. The alternatives, again, are either to be badly prepared for the extremely crucial orals, or else to take a disproportionate number of courses in an extremely limited area...