Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Showman Arthur Fiedler led his group of symphony musicians in their old standby's--semi-classical arrangements heavy on strings and brasses. But for the returning Harvardmen, their wives, and children, G. Wright Briggs '31 was the sensation...
Also named were Marvin Wall, reporter for the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger, which won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize; William Worthy, correspondent for Afro-American and CBS; and Lawson M. Wright, a reporter on the Richmond Times-Dispatch...
...Robert Oppenheimer (posing for Eisie for the sixth time) wrote in the memento book a quotation in Greek from Pindar's Third Pythian Ode: "Dear Soul, do not pursue with too much zeal immortal life, but first exhaust the practical mechanics of living." Next day, at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin North in Wisconsin, the controversial architect took one look at Oppenheimer's inscription, snorted and wrote: "Take the science of life in your stride as the mechanics of the affair. Art and religion are the essences of being. Cultivate them - they are the payoff...
...Without the proper tie, the American intellectual is hard to identify. He does not gravitate to any one city, nor does he bear the stamp of any particular university or have his roots in any particular country. He may be a maverick genius like Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, or a state Supreme Court chief justice who, like New Jersey's Arthur T. Vanderbilt, especially has devoted his talents to improving the courts. He may be doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief-or a physicist like George Gamow, who will explode: "Intellectual? Intellectualism? I don't know what...
...under bitter attack last week. The ruggedly independent agency, which in 1951 was roundly belabored as an "engine of inflation," was now just as severely criticized as a boom-toppling instrument of deflation, largely because of its credit-tightening action. Amid the growing furor over credit, Texas Representative Wright Patman called for a full-dress congressional investigation to find out if the Federal Reserve has pinched credit too tight. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and White House Economic Adviser Arthur Burns have all voiced public disapproval of FRB's fifth boost in the discount rate...