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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class at Harvard (1906), worked briefly as a junior in a Manhattan law firm, then for assorted Government agencies, returned to teach at Harvard in 1914. Even before Roosevelt's first term, Frankfurter exhorted students to seek public service, after 1932 Frankfurter students-"Happy Hot Dogs" -were spotted throughout federal agencies. F.D.R. finally pushed the Harvard chair away from the reluctant, pince-nezed little (5 ft. 5 in.) professor, put him on the Supreme Court, where his authoritarian, powerful mind, attention to small points, endless jabbering jabs at pleading lawyers have made him renowned for brilliance and profound regard...
...Throughout most of their long and tragic history, the inhabitants of the rocky, windswept island of Sardinia have been Italy's forgotten men. But last week all Italy was watching as Sardinia's tough peasants and their red-skirted women went to the polls to elect a new regional council. Reason: Italy was still without a Premier, after a month and a half's crisis, and its only hope for a strong government lay in new national elections (now scheduled for next spring). In the Sardinian voting, Rome's politicos were seeking portents...
Britain's Commonwealth, like all families, is harder to hold together as everyone grows up. Last April when Britain's prime Minister Harold Macmillan decided to call a conference of his fellow P.M.s throughout the Commonwealth, there seemed to be plenty for the family to talk about. Mother Britain's new defense cutbacks, its flirtation with the European Free Trade Area, and the economic and political aftermaths of the Suez incident (which threatened to break up the Commonwealth) were all family matters requiring friendly discussion. But when the time came to discuss them in London, half...
...down main building still bears the pockmarks left by World War II shells. Its students live five to a room, and the thin stew they get for lunch could well stand more meat. But as all Poles know, there is one thing that Lublin has in abundance. "Throughout all the difficult years." says the rector, Father Marian Rechowicz, "we survived on spirit...
...Throughout, the deep, ringing speaking voice of Moses and the soaring tenor of Aaron were heard simultaneously. The orchestra played in a web of complicated polyphony, and the chorus sang in as many as twelve parts. Some found the rainbow shower of sound to their liking; others were puzzled and distracted, wondered whether the oratorio-like work was an opera at all. But Paris' Le Monde called it a miracle. The Neue Züricher Zeitung found the score "an ingenious summary of all that makes Schoenberg the founder of a new musical language." That language-like the words...