Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...American Medical Association has set up machinery to help "the resettlement of these individuals in a spirit of friendly cooperation with unfortunate colleagues." But the A.M.A. gets no friendly cooperation from most state medical societies. Among the least hospitable states are several in which rural communities have been crying for doctors-such as Wisconsin, where Dr. Joachim Bronny was rejected in 1948, despite pleas made for him by the doctorless village of Fairchild...
...Wanda Landowska, harpsichord; Victor, 12 sides 45 r.p.m.). Bach composed this cornerstone of contemporary contrapuntal music "for the use and profit of young musicians anxious to learn, and as a pastime for others already expert in the art." Here the first eight (the rest are to come) are masterfully set forth by the foremost living expert. Recording: excellent...
Even at his own tea table, Epstein is a lonely looking and rather frightening figure. Mountainous, with a fighter's set face and contemptuously protruding lower lip, he speaks in a forbidding rumble. Modern art, curiously enough, is one of his pet hates: "When I get discouraged I look at Picasso's stuff and then I feel better about what I'm doing." He himself once flirted with cubism, "but I abandoned the lady very early and since then she has prospered under other patronage." The semi-abstract sculptures of Henry Moore, with their pinheads and pierced...
...shadow's shadow, he tells us. a shadow's shadow; a world of shadows! How is man the better for all this toiling of his, here under the sun? Age succeeds age, and the world goes on unaltered. Sun may rise and sun may set, but ever it goes back and is reborn ... All rivers flow into the sea, yet never the sea grows full; back to their springs they find their way, and must be flowing still. Weariness, all weariness; who shall tell the tale? Eye looks on unsatisfied; ear listens, ill content. Ever that shall...
...naval architects, engineers and shipping-line executives. His classroom itself was a ship, with the Skipper forward on his bridge, pounding the deck until class was over and it was time for all hands to go ashore. Last week, at 64, the Skipper announced that he would soon set the telegraph for good at "Finished Engines," and retire. Without him, Yale thought, it would give no more courses in naval architecture and marine engineering...