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...Leningrad were asked "What are your desires for the near future?", 60.6% replied that they wanted interesting jobs, while only 18.4% chose the good Communist option of wanting to participate in the construction of a new industrial complex. In a sampling of workers attending political study groups in the Estonian capital of Tallin, less than 1% said they were interested in learning about the philosophy of Communism...
Practicality comes easily to the son of an immigrant Estonian cobbler. As a child, Shapiro handled so many shoes for the Catholic fathers of St. Viator College that when the Jewish lad went there himself, he knew the faculty members not only by name but by feet. After getting a law degree from the University of Illinois in 1929, he set up practice in Kankakee, joined the Young Democrats, met Kerner, and won election in 1936 as Kankakee state's attorney despite the area's Republican preponderance. He convicted the state public-welfare director for neglect of duty...
Died. Dr. Wolfgang Köhler, 80, one of the prime developers of Gestalt psychology, an Estonian-born scientist who spent eight years in the Canary Islands (1913-21) studying the behavior of chimpanzees, made important findings bolstering the Gestalt theory (that physiological impulses should not be treated as isolated phenomena but as interdependent parts of a complex system with properties of its own), wrote the classic statement of this theory (Gestalt Psychology 1929), then emigrated from Germany to the U.S. in 1935 to continue research as a professor at Swarthmore and later Dartmouth; of a heart attack; in Enfield...
...excellent production was something of a United Nations effort, what with an Italian conductor (Bruno Amaducci), an Estonian director (Ulf Thomson), a Greek baritone (Rudolf Constatin), an Australian soprano (Althea Bridges), a Japanese basso (Kunikazu Ohashi) and a Spanish tenor (José Maria Perez). The libretto deals with Attila's siege of Italy in the 5th century and is embellished with the usual subplots of revenge, lust and political hanky-panky. What makes the opera worth the salvaging is the vigor and sheer melodic beauty of the score. Though Verdi the patriot worked at odds with Verdi the composer...
Walton drew up a list of the seven people most often mentioned by the 19 architects. The other four were Paul Rudolph, chairman of Yale's Architecture Department, Estonian-born Louis Kahn, Philip Johnson of Connecticut and Ieoh Ming...