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Undergraduates are for the most part only passive observors of this process. For them the museum is simply a visual library, but Coolidge has made every effort to make it a good one. Years back, Wilhelm Koehler resolutely ignored the Fogg's collection and taught his course on Romanesque sculpture from battered photographs. But last semester Linda Seidel used the originals to teach a course on restorations and forgeries in Romanesque sculpture. Coolidge says, "You cannot discuss the nature of genuine surface or the problems of recutting by studying beaten-up photographs...
Johnny, the first day out Pianist Wilhelm Kempff played for us in the big salon. Everybody could feel the boat rolling and swaying ever so gently. Later, he said: "Sometimes the keys elude your touch like fishes swimming away from under your fingers." What a sport! In a few days we are going to hear the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf at the Ribat of Monastir, Tunisia. Then, while cruising to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, there will be a recital by the Amadeus Quartet and Jean-Pierre Rampal, the flutist. Then on to Catania, Naples and Cannes, where Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli will give...
...Even battle-ravaged South Viet Nam will have gained new airports and harbors, built for waging war but equally suitable for handling peacetime traffic. In Thailand, U.S.-built military roads can be used-indeed already are being used -to get native farm products to market. Similarly, says John K. Wilhelm, an American AID official in Saigon, the heavy ocean-cargo volume generated by the war "might simply be transferred to civilian shipping" once hostilities cease...
...That Ibis is no chicken," cracked La Farge, carrying the winged creature back to his perch on the Lampoon's Kaiser Wilhelm helmet cupola...
...seemed, was immune from ominous personal criticism or sudden dismissal. The government fired Jozef Kutin, a deputy foreign trade minister, and Wilhelm Billig, head of Poland's nuclear-energy office and a former chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Without explanation, it relieved three top-ranking generals, including the head of the vast Warsaw Military District, of their troop commands and consigned them to out-of-the-way desk jobs. It dropped an Olympics official in the department of state sports and dismissed the rector and deputy rector, both Jews, of the Lodz State College...