Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight against urban renewal in North Harvard has been an exercise in frustration. A suit in the Suffolk County Superior Court to question the constitutionality of the convictions was dismissed last summer. All six of those who received the first eviction notices have been evicted or have left...
...reality of opera can never lie in naturalistic stories or settings, but in emotional reality uniquely aided by music. Playwright George Bernard Shaw knew the truth: though the theater could be proved logically to be more real than opera, he wrote, "the facts are just the other way-the superior intensity of musical expression making the opera far more real than the play." In Mozart's Don Giovanni, probably the greatest opera ever written, the Don, to judge from the text alone, could be just a playboy or an obsessive lecher. What gives him nobility and heroism, what defines...
...Angeles' race riot this summer was Pope Paul VI; the tragedy of Watts moved him to hasten a decision to appoint an American Negro bishop. Last week, on the eve of his historic flight to New York, Pope Paul announced his choice: the Rev. Harold R. Perry, 48, superior of the Southern province of the Society of the Divine Word. Perry's post: auxiliary bishop of New Orleans. Announcing the appointment, New Orleans' Archbishop Philip Hannan-himself raised to that position only three days earlier-said warmly, "We welcome the first American-born Negro bishop...
Died. Mayo Buckner, 75, inmate since age eight of Iowa's Glenwood State School for the mentally retarded, who received worldwide publicity in 1957 when it was belatedly discovered that he was of superior intelligence and a gifted performer on eight musical instruments, but was by then so disoriented that he was considered incapable of ever adjusting to a normal life, spent the remaining years as a patient with special privileges, teaching music and working in the print shop; of a stroke; in Glenwood, Iowa...
This is an excellent idea. It should lead to the establishment of a number of superior courses at the upper level, since professors would be drawn there by the prospect of an unusually well-prepared student body...