Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just as rain threatened to wash away the new road, the 16-ton head was removed by trailer and then shipped on loan to Houston. This week it arrived-a superb, Buddha-like sculpture nine feet high, whose meaning to the Olmec civilization is lost to history...
...most striking evidence of the School's renewed concern for the role of the church in the modern world was this year's Colloquium, which brought together more than 150 Catholic and Protestant churchmen. Dean Miller called the Colloquium a "superb success," and saw in its format of public lectures and panel discussions "a method of introducing into our School a dialogue with many different fields." Among the colloquia which he suggested the Divinity School might sponsor were a symposium on contemporary business ethics, a discussion of the relationship between ministers and psychiatrists, and an examination of the theological significance...
Ralph Houk once said that only one thing could stop Whitey Ford from winning an important game--another superb pitcher. Over the past two years only a supreme pitching effort has been able to defeat Harvard's Paul Del Rossi, and that has only happened twice in 19 decisions...
When Milhaud came to Mills in 1940, the laissez-faire intellectuality that made him a troublesome composer marked him immediately as a superb teacher. With an interest that spans every voice of music, from Hebraic folk songs to Bach to jazz, Milhaud never corrals a student's creativity, but merely stands by as music's advocate-and form's conscience...
...trying to find a new president, hopes to get its man by June 30, when Van Dusen leaves. The long search stems partly from the seminary's rigidly high standards, partly from the fact that few men alive can match Van Dusen's diverse ecclesiastical talents. A superb administrator, he has seen Union's faculty change from a sometimes tempestuous aggregation of individual stars (including Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bible Scholar James Moffatt) to what he calls "a constellation of scholars in intimate fellowship." During Van Dusen's presidency, Union's enrollment doubled...