Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secondly, the lecture can be an important tool in the lecturer's learning process, and has served as the proving ground for many a book. Oscar Handlin, professor of History, notes that lectures are an excellent arena in which to test one's ideas. He reports that he often begins a lecture thinking he has the answers, but by the time he reaches the end he sees that they weren't such good ideas after all. "It's easy to come up with what look like sound theories in your head," he says, "but when you try to convince...
...bequest to the museum: his collection must be shown in an exact replica of his old studio. For five years the museum dragged its feet, and it was not until this month that the public could see the studio reproduced, at last cracks and all. There were his rusting tool's the gleaming Blond Negress, the blocklike figures of the Kiss, various versions of the Comb, all looking like upside-down thunderbolts, and a wooden King of Kings resembling vises piled on top of each other, topped by an egg. Each day Brancusi had caressed these pieces, and each...
Hughes, whose passion for privacy is equaled only by his delight in intricate business deals, has been tangled in legal battle with TWA for ten months. TWA charges that Hughes, who owns 78.2% of its stock, forced it to buy jetliners it did not want through his Hughes Tool Co., and is suing him for $150 million in damages. Hughes has countered with a $336 million suit charging that TWA's management is illegally trying to deprive him of control of the airline-but has consistently avoided the personal appearances in court demanded by TWA's lawyers...
...sense change of tone made comprehensible the austere 12-tone style of Webern's Quartet Opus 28. After all, the only basis for judging a technique as rational as this one is whether or not it works, and the kaleidoscope of feelings this quartet displayed showed how good a tool it can be, when performed accurately. Since a major problem for modern music is careful performance, this group is a boon...
...fessional wrestler (5 ft. 9 in., 215 Ibs., chest 47 in.) and a dramatic tenor voice of appropriate size. Canadian-born, he sang in various church choirs and in am ateur operetta productions (Naughty Marietta}, but planned on a business career. He had worked up to tool buyer for the Hudson's Bay Co. department store when the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto heard of him and gave him a three-year scholarship, starting a career that led him at last to Covent Garden and a stunning success as Aeneas in Berlioz' The Trojans (TIME, June...