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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Hankow up popped Father Jacquinot once more to establish another area for refugees. He beat the Japanese into the city, arranged to use the French Concession and former British, German and Russian Concessions as his "safety zone." Into the area he hurried 100,000 Chinese who chose to remain...
...long before Vag climbs (mentally)into the cockpit of his sailplane--one of those white gull-winged ones that soar so silently over the countryside, miraculously holding itself off from the sordid earth beneath. Vag shoots into the air, makes use of several tricky thermals, then skillfully maneuvers the ship in a tight spiral under a great heavy cumulus cloud...
Questioned on the eating co-operative which has been organized by the graduate section of the Student Union, he expressed approval of the venture. He revealed that members of the group had approached him during the summer, asking for the use of an empty building in which to begin a new dining hall...
...revamping Memorial Hall for a graduate board-center, Landis felt. He recalled the fact that when he was in College the building was notoriously unpopular, not only for its atmosphere but for its "lousy food." The latter, of course, could be corrected if the hall was put back to use...
...America, but his feeling for melodic line is too strong to identify him exclusively with this French school. He exerts in his writing a fascinating play of orchestral color and unusual rhythmic invention. His harmonies are bold and original; the dissonances resulting from free polyphony rather than arbitrary use of discord for its own sake. "A Pagan Poem" shows the composer mystic, idyllic even macabre. The modal atmosphere often felt in his music is the result of a strong impression made on him by the Russian liturgy with which he grew familiar as a young man visiting in Russia...