Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agonizing decision: either accept the G.A.C. verdict against his own passionate conviction that it endangered the nation, or fight the decision, with little chance of winning, and at the cost of ostracism by many of his fellow scientists. He chose to fight, joined forces with Atomic Energy Commissioner Lewis Strauss in the struggle that pitted them against popular Robert Oppenheimer and split the ranks of U.S. scientists for years afterward...
...shifted to vocational schools. The exceptionally bright are put into special schools attached to the universities. Scientific content of the standard curriculum: mathematics through trigonometry, five years of physics, four years of chemistry, general science (mostly natural history) in every grade beginning with the fourth. Warns AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss: "I can learn of no public high school in our country where a student obtains so thorough a preparation in science and mathematics, even if he seeks it-even if he should be a potential Einstein...
Slated for unopposed election this week as Jewish co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews: Investment Banker Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. His holdover colleagues: Catholic James F. Twohy, West Coast finance executive, and Protestant Benjamin F. Fairless, onetime head of U.S. Steel...
...singers, including Germany's Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Vienna's Leonie Rysanek, British Tenor Richard Lewis, and a strong group of young American discoveries. This season's highlights: the brilliantly staged U.S. premiere of Francis Poulenc's religious opera, The Carmelites (TIME, Feb. 11), and Richard Strauss's seldom-produced Ariadne auf Naxos, a kind of Baroque double feature, sometimes as serious as Salome, sometimes as raffish as Rosenkavalier. With Soprano Rysanek in the title role and Pittsburgh's Conductor William Steinberg in the pit, the production was a triumph...
...were in the presence of greatness. His admirers indeed claimed Jean Sibelius as one of the century's greatest composers, and since he outlived all major contenders for the title except Stravinsky, during recent years he reigned in almost solitary splendor. Yet, compared to such contemporaries as Richard Strauss and Debussy, to say nothing of Alban Berg and Prokofiev, Sibelius often sounded cumbrous and provincial. No major composer stood more stubbornly aside from the 20th century's musical revolutions or responded less to the shifting winds of musical development...