Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gifted. What first fascinated Conant about the public school was its Jeffersonian character-the mixing of children from all social levels. At casteconscious Harvard, President Conant's great theme was the American tradition of respecting any man good at his trade. "Each honest calling, each walk of life,'' he said in a baccalaureate sermon, "has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments...
From that opening message, sent by President Eisenhower, a single theme ran through the 82nd annual convention of the American Bar Association last week in Miami. Where only a few years ago the subject was rarely mentioned at A.B.A. conventions, last week speaker after speaker expressed hope and belief in the possibility of applying the rule of law to achieve world peace. Among them...
...festival's standout was the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Blending classical and jazz traditions with a masterful touch, Milhaud-trained Pianist Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) and his mates (Eugene Wright on bass, Joe Morello on drums, Paul Desmond on alto sax) made each number sound like a theme and variations. The quartet usually started with well-known tunes (These Foolish Things, St. Louis Blues), then varied the tempo (from 4/4 to 5/4 and back to 3/4) as it injected its own sometimes loud, sometimes soft designs. The solo lead flew like a badminton bird from one musician...
Dinosaur's Dinner. At times, tiring of the earth's-end theme, Clarke pulls a switch, reminds his readers that mankind, whose veins run with the blood of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun, is the more likely aggressor, could cut a dreadful swath through the tentacles, feathers and eyestalks of the galaxy's gentle people. But the best story in Across the Sea of Stars uses the solar system's most venerable gimmick, the time machine. A crew of paleontologists is digging out the 50-million-year-old tracks of a carnivorous dinosaur. The leader...
...Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). An Army pianist named Peter Duchin makes his TV debut playing Nocturne in E Flat, the theme song that will always belong to his late father, Eddy...