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...final, and perhaps most perplexing, of all the ballets is a world premiere entitled "passage." Set to Enigma-style music, some of which was written by Hildergard von Bingen in the eleventh century, this dance does not seem to know what exactly it wants to be. The simple, elegant costumes, paired with sublime yet fantastic lighting, create a mood of long ago-something between the chivalry of the Middle Ages, and the mystery of ancient Egypt. The dance corps does demonstrate a timeless-though somewhat flavorless-elegance, but the reed-like poles they use quickly degenerate from quirky and innovative...
...shut off the heater in my roommate's room because my roommate "always makes a mess and has poor circulation;" and I called the Bureau of Study Council to say I needed academic help, badly--I was taking a graduate-level German course on Heinrich von Kleist and didn't speak a word of German. Many students told me they got a kick out of "Prank Files," a column intended only as an idiotic distraction based on rather unsophisticated humor. But despite the lack of depth of "Prank Files," I am shocked the administration thinks it has the right...
...electrical engineer who helped lead America into space; on a train traveling from Washington to New York City. Porter oversaw the first U.S. satellite launch in 1958, a project that had its seeds in a perilous 1945 trip he made to Germany to recruit pioneering rocket scientists including Wernher von Braun...
...belongs to the province of business competition, which is also the conflict of human interests. --Karl Von Clausewitz...
DIED. SIR FRANK WHITTLE, 89, engineer who in the 1930s developed the first jet engine for Britain, just as Hans J.P. von Ohain independently built one for Germany; in Columbia, Maryland...