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...sociologists. It is also the burden of recent reports by three separate panels of more traditional social scientists who have made their own appraisals of how the so-called "soft" sciences are-and are not-put to use. The most wide-ranging group is the Behavioral and Social Sciences (BASS) Survey Committee, sponsored by two private organizations, the National Academy of Sciences and the Social Science Research Council. The BASS committee's recommendations...
...recommended new programs, plus continuing the growth of federal funding for present social science projects at a rate of 12% to 18% each year. Bills embodying some ideas in the report have been introduced in Congress during the past two years, but have made little real progress. Nonetheless, the BASS report and its counterparts released in the past 18 months by other groups put social scientists on notice. "If they are to contribute effectively to the quality of life," warns the BASS committee, "they may have to move more rapidly than is altogether congenial...
...nearly endless succession of well-meaning popularizers have taken gross and extravagant liberties with it, Handel is partly to blame. A shrewd businessman, he ensured The Messiah's success by hiring the best and most popular singers in 18th century London to sing it. If the bass singer was not very good, Handel would turn the bass aria into a recitative, rewrite it for an alto or even a soprano. For flexible soprano voices, he would doll up the music with ornaments and, if another soprano complained, he would steal a few arias from the first soprano and slip...
...church action. Pentacostalist Minister Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, 33, a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, believes ? and earnestly preaches ? that all races can live together better than they can separately. His principal ministry these days is folk songs, which he delivers in a rich Leadbelly bass, often on marches for peace in Washington or New York, and this month on a tour of some 20 colleges and universities through the South. Though a robustly spiritual man, Kirkpatrick suggests that more black ministers might use their spe cial independence more fruitfully if they could abandon...
Moments before the delegates were scheduled to recess for a luncheon of poached bass at the Italian embassy, Foreign Minister Panayotis Pipinelis of Greece interrupted the proceedings. Waving his hand in the air, he told Italy's Aldo Moro, chairman of the Council of Europe meeting in Paris: "I have something further to say." With that, the small, sharp-featured Pipinelis, 70, announced that Greece would resign immediately from one of Europe's most prestigious political forums. He did not have to explain why. Everyone in the room knew that the first order of business after lunch would...