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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seeking and daring artist is worth more than the well-trained craftsman who blindly copies . . . the great past masters." What added to his statement's interest was a list of young Soviet composers Khachaturian considers promising. This gave the West virtually its first glimpse of an almost unknown younger generation of composers. Among them: ¶Boris Tchaikovsky, 31, whose Slavic Rhapsody for Orchestra has stirred up much talk in Russia...
...whether they are Biblical or nonBiblical. Even a single word with a few letters of the words preceding and following it may be identified in this way by consulting a concordance which lists every word in the Bible in its immediate context. Noncanonical works from the Apocrypha and unknown writings of the Qumran sect are identified more slowly by their use of key words and characteristic phrases...
...them are many, such as harelip, clubfoot and similar malformations, which may be congenital (in that a child has them at birth) but which are not, so far as is known, the result of defective genes, and therefore are not predetermined at conception. They are caused by events, still unknown, occurring during life in the womb, and some of them can be repaired by surgery. Many have no proved relation to heredity, e.g., eczema, psoriasis, allergic diseases, migraine, stuttering. Others are known to occur more commonly in some families than in others, such as diabetes and nearsightedness. "Another large group...
...Promotions and appointments by presidential or administrative fiat are unconstitutional and unknown there. The faculty would never tolerate them in any way; nor could the role of the faculty in the matter of appointments be construed as merely advisory rather than determining...
...classical languages as essential, the department gives a series of half courses of supposedly ascending difficulty in various authors. Class discussion is quite broad, but examinations for the most part depend on the spewing out of prepared translations with an occasional cursory essay thrown in, and papers are almost unknown. Something beyond this should be expected of students theoretically beyond the elementary level. Analysis of text alone, however worthy as a discipline, leaves a good deal to be desired in transmitting paideia, for after all, facility in the language is only valuable insofar that it increases the student's understanding...