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Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (Aksel Schiötz, tenor; Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Columbia). Danish Tenor Schiötz sings with incredible ease and warmth, gives Beethoven's famed song cycle its full, expressive measure...
Living in isolation on the edge of the moors, never seeing other children, seldom winning a glance of warmth from their father, the little Brontës soon created their own dream world. At 13, Charlotte had written 22 little books of stories about the imaginary land of Angria, where heroes were amoral, sardonic and sadistic; Emily worked at the Gondal chronicles on the wars of Royalists and Republicans in a mysterious kingdom of the North. Later, when Charlotte was a teacher, she found nothing more thrilling than a letter from brother Branwell reporting "news" of one of their...
...break in House routine is the Thursday dinners to which Hammond and his wife, careful that each House member is sometime invited, ask several students. Hammond met his wife in 1935 "very properly in Louisburg Square as befits a Bostonian," though she was a native of New Orleans. "Any warmth in the House," Hammond says, a little proudly, "comes from my wife." But, while House members attest to Mrs. Hammond's engaging personality, they usually add that Hammond under-rates his own influence. With his hearty voice and his sincere manner, The Mace has brought a warmth to Kirkland...
...usual hospital practice of putting newborn babies in an incubator if they have breathing difficulties is wrong, said an Atlanta husband & wife team, Drs. James and Faith Miller. The warmth of the incubator increases the need for oxygen, whereas cold decreases it. After experiments on animals, the Millers suspect that babies in danger of asphyxia should be chilled...
Enjoyment of power, once thought a vice, is now accounted a virtue among the Faculty, for in the Provost's case it is based on enjoyment of people and an appreciation of their problems and hopes. It is a rare combination, ruthlessness and warmth; but from this paradox of character have come most of the advances by which Harvard has retained its place as the foremost American college...