Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Research at the CEA, scheduled to resume Nov. 1, must now wait until mid-January because of delays in repairing the experimental hall. Richard Wilson, professor of Physics, said Tuesday that the explosion has caused most problems for the 19 graduate students working there. "Professors get used to delays, but graduate students want their work over with," he said. They've all been set back a year and those who had started with the bubble chamber are stuck with using chambers elsewhere...
...habit or as a means of social climbing; if they seem contemptible to the real opera lover, they are abundantly punished by having to sit through hours of music they don't really enjoy. Some come as cultists: just as bullfight aficionados find macabre joy in waiting for the matador to be gored, operagoers can wait in horrible human fascination for the soprano to go flat at the end of Vissi d'arte or to fall downstairs in the mad scene of Lucia. In its own way, by the nearly impossible demands it makes on singers, opera, like...
...great deal of meaning, even in the unlikely areas of politics or sociology; Fidelia is a highly moving musical treatise on freedom, The Marriage of Figaro on the corruption of aristocracy, Don Carlos on the dilemmas of power. Opera plots and music are sexy. Most operatic heroines fail to wait for the wedding ceremony (Manon, Mimi, Tosca, Aïda, Carmen, Santuzza, Brünnhilde), and they (Norma, Marguerite, Sieglinde, Suor Angelica) have a lot of illegitimate children. Whatever one may think of the plots, one remembers the characters. Rigoletto may end up absurdly with the heroine killed by mistake...
Many Israelis hope that such pressure from modern-minded young Orthodox Jews will eventually bring some modifications of these Shemittah observances. "We really have no solution," admits one officer of the rabbinate."Maybe it's best to be quiet about it and wait for the Messiah to come and put things right...
...want you anyway." Now the Star has raised salaries and approved a pension plan that calls for mandatory retirement at 65, thus giving younger men a chance to get ahead. "We've finally got to the point," says one encouraged youngster, "where you don't have to wait until some guy dies for places to be opening up." After all, if Roy Roberts can retire peacefully, anyone...