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...were Vigeland's instructions to his orchestra before the program. And they did not. Where a certain other Boston ensemble played through Stravnisky last week as though they hated every minute of it, the Bach Society was alive with enthusiasm for Pulcinella. The piece represents the beginning of twentieth-century musical neoclassicism. Borrowing from Pergolesi, Stravinsky fools with the theme throughout, always setting off the expected (as implied by classical harmonies) against his own turn of phrase...
...Street USA, indicates that Disney was primarily interested in pristine nostalgia for a lost boyhood mythology of the nineteenth century Disney must have felt exiled from this world when his father suffered financial reverses and the Disney family had to seek its fortune in the city, and in the twentieth century. One can see the influence of Disney's lost boyhood in the myths recreated for children, and the harsh reality of the city in the commercial nature of the set up. It was extremely important to Disney that the public buy the dreams he was selling if they were...
...prints take about a minute to develop, one-twentieth the time required for conventional X rays; more important, they are far easier to read and interpret. In a series of 1,535 examinations performed during the past year, Martin uncovered 54 cancers. Thirteen of the cancers had been previously unsuspected, and all were detected before they had spread beyond the original site. Because of the promising results in Houston, hospitals in Chicago, Los Angeles and Detroit have ordered the new equipment and will soon be using xeroradiography to get an early warning of breast cancer...
There are many interesting ways to spend your time in the Soviet Union. Alexander Solzhenitsyn has spent a lot of his incurring most of the suffering which the country's twentieth century history has to offer. After studying mathematics and physics for ten years he was drafted into the Soviet Army at the beginning of World War II. He served as an artillery officer in East Prussia and Germany, was decorated twice for bravery, and then sentenced to ten years in a labor camp hauling logs and laying bricks. Tass called his offence a "baseless political charge," probably incurred...
...current construction of a new sailboat house will bring Harvard sailing into the twentieth century. At an estimated cost of $250,000, financed through private donations, the building will open next spring. The unique barge structure, replacing the old floats near the Mass. Ave. bridge, will be the first real home for Harvard's small dinghy fleet...