Word: weber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appeared likely during the gloomiest weeks of struggle. Most of the star singers are available, but fitting them into an impromptu schedule will be a computer-size job. The delay has ruled out four fancy new productions: Herbert von Karajan's long-awaited Siegfried, Orfeo ed Euridice, Weber's gloomily romantic Der Freischutz, and a Russian-language Boris Godunov. But the Met's first week will probably open with Aïda and Leontyne Price, and there are plans for brand-new productions by Franco Zeffirelli of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, along with Renata Tebaldi...
Charisma,* as defined in political terms by Sociologist Max Weber, refers to a leader who has a special grace or extraordinary power to rule by the force of personality alone. In more primitive lands, such a ruler was frequently revered as a father figure with magical capacities. Peasants in Turkey, for example, believed that Dictator Kemal Ataturk was impervious to bullets. Even in relatively sophisticated societies, there is a deep-rooted need for magic. The fact that the magician may not really have talent or wisdom is less important than the popular belief that...
Other signers include Howard C. Berg, assistant professor of Biology: John T. Edsall 23, professor of Biological Chemistry: Walter Gilbert 53, professor of Biophysics: Guido Guidotti, associate professor of Biology: Gustav Leinhard: Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology: Jack L. Strominger 44, professor of Biochemistry: Klans K. Weber, assistant professor of Biology...
...Patricia Finnegan Collins, wife of Astronaut Mike Collins, heard Father John Schatzel read from Genesis: "I will be with you and protect you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land." In Neil Armstrong's home town of Wapakoneta, Ohio, the Rev. Herman J. Weber prayed at St. Paul's United Church of Christ: "Oh thou great architect of the universe, it is only because thy universe is an embodiment of order and harmony upon which we can rely, that we are able to explore with sincere faith the vast imponderables of space...
...building larger detectors, for example, astronomers could learn more about pulsars. If they are actually spinning neutron stars, as many astronomers have come to believe, they could be producing the kind of gravitational effect postulated by Einstein. The detection of gravity waves, Weber adds, gives man "a new set of windows for the study of the universe...