Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Controlling Snobbery. In science, the upper four grades cover everything from genetics to twelfth-grade chemistry. In English, students learn mythology, composition, Dickens, Twain, Shakespeare. In social studies, the range is from Greece to China and modern Russia. Every two weeks, the kids hand in independent research reports. One work sheet asked seventh-graders to analyze the significance of Adam Smith. Robert Walpole, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, the Bill of Rights, the British Cabinet system, and the Commonwealth of Nations. Sixth-graders had to discuss Hernando Cortes, Pancho Villa...
Even the social realist critics he had tried so hard to please ever since Stalin had scolded him for bourgeois tendencies had shown little patience with the bombastic Leninism of his Eleventh and Twelfth revolutionary symphonies. Mocking rumor had it that in his dacha outside Moscow, Shostakovich would next write a Sputnik symphony, and after that, a Soviet soccer symphony...
Finaly, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, deml-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his acclaimed performance at the Cloisters; Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...
Babe, a native of Rochester, N.Y., and a president of Kirkland House, has appeared on the Harvard stage in The Alchemist, Rosmersholm, and as Malvolio in Twelfth Night. He directed last year's Drumbeats and Song production, the Pajama Game...
...Porter was the wife of Harvard archeologist A. Kingsley Porter, and she asked that the humanities-social sciences professorship he named after him. If the chair is made a University professorship, it will be the twelfth of this kind. Among the current holders of University professorships are Paul H. Buck, I. A. Richards, Paul A. Freund, and Edward M. Purcell, Paul J. Tillich held a University professorship until his retirement last June...