Word: sheldon
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...nuclear bombs began exploding in the Nevada desert in 1951, when Sheldon Nisson was five. "They used to tell us to get up and watch the blasts," recalls his mother Helen, who still lives in Washington, Utah, some 125 miles downwind from the test site. "We saw the clouds go over all the time. Our children played outside. All the while, the Government kept saying that it wouldn't hurt us." But when the last of 102 mushroom clouds rose above the desert in 1962, Sheldon Nisson was dead from leukemia. His cancer, along with that of nine other...
...Werks” ran this past weekend at the recently completed Harvard Dance Center (HDC), and its performances were as sleek and modern as the new venue. The opening dance, “Not Fire, Not Ice” choreographed by graduate student Marita L. Sheldon, set the evening’s tone. Five black-clad dancers took to the dimly lit stage and cycled through poses eerily suggestive of death throes as a solemn voice boomed lines from Robert Frost’s apocalyptic poem “Fire and Ice”. Odd mechanical sound effects...
...very nice, kind, decent man” and “a first-rate scientist.” Ty was also a man of “lots of interests,” Sur added. When he graduated from HMS in 2004, he received the Kennedy Sheldon Fellowship, which allowed him to study ethics and theology in Vatican City for a year. Ty wrote on the HST website that he would always remeber “raising his window blinds in Vanderbilt [his HMS residence] and seeing his classmates lower a 40-ft HST banner from Gordon Hall...
...possibility that Harvard would house over 19,000 cubic feet of flammable gasses in its new research lab. “Most of us didn’t understand what that meant and didn’t know what the chemicals were going to be,” said Sheldon Krimsky, who lives in the neighborhood and is a professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts. Mahoney said he did not think Harvard would expose the community to danger. “I have nothing but the utmost respect and faith in what they tell me because...
...DARLING OF THE DAY, by Jule Styne and E.Y. Harburg, and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, by Joe Raposo and Sheldon Harnick, in concert revivals...