Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Operating like a resistance group in an occupied country, which they argue Wales is, Glyn and his friends have put "The Voice of Free Wales" on the air at least three times a week for the past month. Dodging from house to house, from town to town, the broadcasters have spread their illicit message through South Wales. Unlike the Scottish nationalist movement, which is more intellectual and romantic, the Welsh nationalists appeal to 2,500,000 cohesive people with an intense pride in their native songs and in their literature, which dates back to the 6th century poets, Taliesin...
...arrival at Foothills, the Dalai Lama demolished this feeble Red legend. At the tea planters' town of Tezpur, he stated "categorically," in the third-person style expected of a god, that he left Lhasa and Tibet and came to India "of his own will and not under duress," and said that his "quite arduous" escape was only possible "due to the loyalty and affectionate support of his Tibetan people." In unemotional language (he was pledged not to embarrass his Indian hosts) he bluntly accused the Red Chinese of destroying a large number of monasteries, killing lamas and forcing monks...
...most recent large-scale work, a Requiem for double chorus, which will be performed tonight in Sanders by the Glee Club and Choral Society, was composed in isolation. "I had a sabbatical in 1957-8 and my friends assumed that I had left town for the winter. Really, I had just stayed at home on Brattle Street working long hours in my studio there. When I appeared at school next fall, some colleagues asked me how I had enjoyed my trip. The solitude that I attained in that year was invaluable. After two months of undisturbed labor, I found that...
...include more schools and schools further from Cambridge, the question remains what kind of schools and what kind of people is Harvard attracting. Professor Samuel A. Stouffer, an Admissions Committee member, notes that despite the effort expended toward attracting bright people in large high schools, the small town high school has been neglected. "We don't do very well in Hush-puppy, Georgia," Stouffer comments. The large Eastern preparatory schools continue to supply sizeable delegations, but with more schools represented and fewer from any one. Even Exeter's formidable shipments have eased off some in the past few years. Among...
...schools which fail to meet the minimum standards imposed by Ivy League colleges simply are not considered at admissions time. President Emeritus Conant has been a strong advocate of this "pull the high schools up by our bootstraps" theory of admissions, despite the danger of leaving the the small town high school irrevocably behind...