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...melted away, and Alexander Meiklejohn finally retired to his modest house in Berkeley ("a professor's house, you know") to study, play an occasional game of tennis and stroll about the hills. But he had had his effect on U.S. education-in the great-books seminars that sprang up, in the whole effort to cut across academic fields and search for the unity of knowledge, in the trend toward giving college students more independence and in the new interest in liberal education for adults. Last week Amherst found the old pioneer still the philosophical idealist, trying to find...
...hardly talk, let alone sing"). On opening night last week, a big share of the applause went to Soprano Nilsson, who was compared to the great Kirsten Flagstad. But the star of the occasion was Rodzinski himself. Perched on a high stool in the pit, he mimed every emotion, sprang up repeatedly to sustain notes with sure baton sweeps. During breaks in the four-hour, 50-minute evening he changed dripping shirts, gave himself an alcohol rub, gulped
...recent abstract paintings, and includes some of Gilbert Stuart's famed portraits of Washington, an engraving by Paul Revere of the Boston Massacre, works by Benjamin West, Washington Allston, Whistler, Sargent, Homer, Eakins and Ryder. What the exhibition plainly shows is that a new school of painting sprang up in the U.S.. one that at times echoes its European origins, but that has its own national imprint and its own peculiar genius...
...nonscheduled airlines* that sprang up after World War II, none was a bigger hit with the traveling public-or more trouble to CAB-than Trans American Airlines. Put together by a former Navy lieutenant commander, an ex-Air Corps transport pilot, and two former Douglas Aircraft employees, the Trans American group of companies started cheap fares, forced scheduled airlines to cut-rate coach fares. Trans American built up a $16 million annual business. All told, it has carried more than 1,250,000 passengers without an accident. But it broke CAB's regulations by shuffling planes about among five...
...made a brilliant end run that skirts nearly all the technical thrashing and rehashing that bedevil Manhattan painters. His subjects range from such imaginary portraits as King Gustave of Sweden Tatting to East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Disembarking from H.M.S. Cressy , the fourth in a series of watercolors which sprang from the war games that Parker, a lead-soldier enthusiast, played until recently on the mudflat at suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. Parker's drenched watercolors. done on rolls of plain shelf paper, now appear in the collections of both the Whitney and the Museum of Modern...