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...Union Theological Seminary, an editor of Christianity and Crisis, Christianity and Society, contributing editor of the Nation, and an ex-Socialist who was still unflaggingly active in non-Communist leftist movements. He was also the author of countless magazine articles and eleven books on theology. His magnum opus, the two-volume Nature and Destiny of Man, was the most complete statement of his position...
Arnold J. Toynbee, wispy British historiographer whose magnum opus, A Study of History, is six volumes long already, arrived in the U.S. to work on the final three volumes. Why did he think his work (in condensed form) had become a U.S. bestseller? "It's very funny," he admitted. "Maybe because . . . America was entering the main stream of history and Americans wanted to know more about...
Professor Whitehead was perhaps best known for two early works, written before his arrival in Cambridge--"A Treatise on Universal Algebra," (1898), and "Principia Mathematics," (1910), in which he collaborated with is friend and former pupil Bertrand Russell. In the latter, a monumental three-volume opus, the authors cut one of the major tasks of philosophy in half by demonstrating that there is a definite connection between pure mathematics and logic...
...prompted Band members to cut two now records, although circulation of them must still remain very limited. At its Wednesday night rehearsal, the group transcribed the recent "Radcliffiana" medley, which is to be sold at the Annex with the 'Cliffe Choral Society on the illpover. Prokofiev's March from Opus 99 and Holst's "Suite for Band" will also be printed, but only for private distribution to members...
...Band program will include: three Souza Marches, the Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale Medleys, Milhand's "Suite Francais," the "Military Suite" in E flat by Gustav Holst, the March from "Opus 99" by Sergei Prokofleff, and "Pavaue" by Morton Gould, Of special interest will be "Radcliffiana," a musical sketch of the Annex arranged by Leroy Anderson...