Word: starke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expedition, marched off into a blizzard in a suicidal sacrifice. In Zillig's treatment, the penguins enter the story as a kind of Greek chorus, representing hostile nature, and commenting with pitilessly unemotional detachment on the explorers' plight. Zillig's dissonant score proved to be as stark as the setting, with rare lyric interludes when Oates (Baritone Martin Schmidt) realizes what he must...
...quinine, cholesterol and, in 1960, of chlorophyll. Woodward seeks no practical application for his work, saying: "I'm just fascinated by chemistry. I am in love with it. I don't feel the need for a practical interest to spur me." At an opposite pole is M.I.T.'s Charles Stark Draper, an engineering genius in aeronautics and astronautics who describes himself as nothing more than "a greasy-thumb mechanic type of fellow." And there is William Shockley, who with two colleagues (John Bardeen and Walter Brattain) earned a 1956 Nobel Prize for creating the transistor?that hugely useful little solid...
...Charles Stark Draper, 59, head of M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of its Instrumentation Lab, was once trying to spell out the meaning of dyne centimeter, a tiny unit of torque (twisting force). "A dyne centimeter," said Draper, a sociable chap, "is just about the amount of torque that would have to be applied to my arm to get me to take a drink." Draper's contributions to aeronautic and missile technology include the A-4 gunsight that gave U.S. Sabre jets clear superiority over Russian MIGs in Korea and the inertial guidance systems that control...
...minute short titled The Marines, and its producer is François Reichenbach, 38, who made a big New Wave splash last spring with his first full-length movie, the much criticized L'Amérique Insolite (generally translated "unusual"). For his latest effort, a stark study of the Parris Island, S.C., boot camp, Reichenbach last week was unanimously greeted as one of France's most poetic, powerful film makers...
Also Stephen D. Senturia (Physics), Kirkland House; David H. Souter Philosophy, of Lowell House; Richard stark (Government), of Lowell House; Peter L. Strauss (Chemistry and Physics), of Kirkland House...