Word: thorntons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Assistant Professor Richard Thornton has still another method of teaching do-it-yourself science in his electrical engineering classes. He created a kit for his students consisting of a plastic pegboard and a plastic box full of tiny parts-200 resistors, 50 capacitors, 6 transistors, etc. About the size of a thin textbook, the kit costs $25-and with it several students, working together in their dormitory, can fashion such things as a digital computer or an elementary TV system...
...Thornton...
...curtain has just fallen on William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (Royal Court). Let us now imagine that there steps from the wings the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Pulling on a corncob pipe, he speaks...
...Thornton Wilder (parodied by Kenneth Tynan...
...equally happy meeting of food, drink and the classics occurs every Sunday afternoon in New Haven, Conn., at a nightclub known as the Playback, which attracts fans like Author Thornton Wilder, Diplomat Chester Bowles and Composer Quincy Porter to hear serious music spiked with first-rate jazz. Playback is the plaything of Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, the two jazzmen who touched off a modest international incident last year when they introduced cheering Russian audiences to the intricacies of the Cool. Equally at home in jazz and classical music (Ruff has a master's degree in music from Yale...