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Before coming to the United States in 1933, Tillich taught at the University in Frankfort, home of the 19th century poet Wolfgang von Goethe. Since 1954 Tillich has been on the faculty of the Harvard Divinity School...
Hisses and boos mingled with cheers as Richard Wagner's grandsons rang up the curtain last week on the sixth postwar season at Bayreuth. Reason for the excitement: Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner had finally got around to applying to Die Meistersinger the same stripped-down, dramatically lighted staging in which they have redraped all but one (Rienzi) of their Grandfather Richard's works...
...production's cast of veterans (Hans Hotter as Sachs, Wolfgang Wind-gassen as Stolzing) put on a plodding, vocally uninspired performance. But few members of the audience had ears for the music-it was the sets and the staging that intrigued them. Some critics conceded that Wieland had given the work spiritual unity, but they argued that the staging style was not consistent...
...neutrinos (small, uncharged particles) in their calculations. Neutrinos are necessary: without them many nuclear equations would not balance, and the massive branches of nuclear theory might fall to the ground. But no known apparatus has ever detected neutrinos. They were reasoned into existence by Nobel Prizewinners Enrico Fermi and Wolfgang Pauli to fill a theoretical need, and the gnawing suspicion has long persisted that they do not exist. Last week from the Atomic Energy Commission came big news. Neutrinos do exist...
...other members of the committee were: Francis Keppel '38, dean of the School of Education; Donald Oenslager '23, noted stage designer and professor of Stage Design at Yale; Dean Charles H. Sawyer of the Yale School of Fine Arts; Professor Wolfgang Stechow of Oberlin; George Wald, professor of Biology; John Walker '30, Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; and S. Lane Faison, Jr., Executive Secretary of the Committee