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...naivete of Schubert's love-sick miller. In the lower limits of his range, notes lose their individuality and produce an unpleasant drone. Above his beautiful middle voice, Harkless' pitch control gets out of hand, with climatic high notes sometimes painfully flat. In short, he knows what effects to strive for, but he can not always command them...

Author: By Robert M. Simson, | Title: James Harkless, baritone | 11/2/1954 | See Source »

...group founded by Fulton Lewis Jr., and already banned from the University of Virginia campus, states in its written constitution that it will "unceasingly strive to uncover and eradicate the concerted and well-organized attempt by subversive elements to infiltrate our colleges and campuses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: conservative Club May Unite With SFA Group | 10/21/1954 | See Source »

...terms of geographical distribution, the Cornell student body does not exhibit an equivalent degree of diversity. While the University has students from every state and from nearly 70 foreign countries, and admissions officers strive for ever wider distribution, Cornell is still to a large extent a New York State school, with close to sixty per cent of its students from within the state...

Author: By Daniel A. Rezneck, | Title: Cornell: One the Ivy League's Frontier | 10/9/1954 | See Source »

...their Lord in iso lation from the world. It is the world which He came to save . . . But this witness of the church to its Lord is weakened by our faithlessness-not least by our divisions. Therefore will the church deal with these divisions with holy impatience, and passionately strive for unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A GUIDE FOR EVANGELISTS | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...more powerful sculptor would probably not have excited such diverse reactions. Nor would one less powerful, since lesser men strive for the obvious, which Marcks scorns. His art. like that of the ancient Greeks, chiefly celebrates the wonder and joy of being alive, of being able to stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Not Quite Greek | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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