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...shared the bill with girls tenderized in lacquer and lace. The mood could be tender too. On the radio, a slow tune just naturally followed an up-tempo number; it was the heartbeat of teen America. The 19-year-old Aretha Franklin could take a Broadway spiritual like Meredith Willson's Are You Sure and transform it into a righteous steeple raiser. Baby, that was rock and roll...
George B. Field, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, said that the group is fasting to express personal support for Hyder's activism. "We want to draw attention to the urgency of ending the nuclear arms race and to Hyder's personal commitment," Field said...
...They cover a vast array of human knowlege. I'm planning to go to as many as I can," says Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy George B. Field. "They're an education in themselves." Field will also lead a seminar entitled "The Universe: The Beginning, Now and Henceforth...
...schedule for an avid self-educator might be something like this: "The Universe: The Beginning Now and Henceforth," run by George B. Field, Willson Professor of Astronomy, followed by "Women and Work: The Interactive Relationship," with a variety of Radcliffe administrators on Thursday; Friday's tidbits might include "The French Revolution: The Language of Violence," monitored by Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and then "Nuclear Promises and Problems," with Nicholaas Bloembergen, Gerhard Gade University Professor; and finally on Saturday one could finish up with "Biomolecular Processes," with Walter Gilbert, professor of biology and "Challenges...
...Charles Willson Peale named some of his children after artists and others after scientists. Taking his name very seriously, Rembrandt Peale grew up to be one of America's important early painters. Last week he also became the priciest. The National Gallery of Art paid $4.07 million for his Rubens Peale with a Geranium, an intimate portrait of his horticulturist younger brother. The previous record for an American work of art at auction: $2.75 million for Frederic Edwin Church's Icebergs...