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...field studies program meets such questions with intelligence and humility. And perhaps one of Professor Vogt's new applicants (applications are due at 8 Bow Street by the end of the month) will be able to explain the latest narrative in Dominago's wondrous narrative: Mariano Zarate, recently released, has returned to power in the Zinacantan municipio...
Historically, the U.S. has been the most inventive of modern nations. Telephone and television, the cotton gin and the airplane, Thomas Edison's magic lamp and Henry Ford's indestructible Model T-these are but a few of the wondrous works of Yankee tinkerers. Such inventions have enriched society and stimulated the economy by spurring consumer demand, putting men to work and raising purchasing power, which in turn spurs demand afresh...
...weariest war-horses in the world of music. Last week the programs included the Beethoven Seventh and Ninth symphonies, and the Third "Leonore" Overture-and for each work, Krips provided fine readings that did full justice to the music's grand design while ignoring none of its wondrous intricate detail...
...without benefit of proper costumes, sets, makeup, context, and story--to capture and convey three-dimensional characters almost instantaneously, whether from farce, comedy, romance or tragedy. This requires real genius to bring off. And neither Miss Hayes nor Mr. Evans is that gifted. Sir John Gielgud is; but the wondrous success he had with his solo Shakespearean. evening, "The Ages of Man," should not be interpreted as encouragement to everyone with an Equity card to "go, thou, and do likewise...
Christmas Island's Scientific Director Ogle is one of a strange breed of professional weapons testers who have traveled the atomic route in the conviction that what they are doing will make the U.S. stronger. They are fascinated by their wondrous weapons, whose forces even they do not fully understand. Another such tester, Physicist Walter Goad Jr. of the University of California's Scientific Laboratory at Los Alamos, puts their view simply: "Everyone here recognizes that these weapons are terribly destructive and that we don't know what will ultimately happen. But we feel that...