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Some of those who adore the early, sentiment-laden Puccini operas, have decided that Turandot is an "insincere" work. The super-heros are accused of inhuman conduct--which was precisely what Puccini had intended. (In one of his many letters to Giuseppe Adami, the librettist, Puccini had called Calaf and Turandot "almost super-human beings.") However, their inhuman conduct was to become humanized through Liu's example. Calaf's cruel desertion of Liu and Timur and Turandot's vicious behavior towards her subjects and suitors alike was not condoned by Puccini. During the final duet (the part he never completed...
...Long Wait. Since then, Sir Anthony Eden has been waiting with impeccable good manners (and sometimes super-human patience) for Sir Winston Churchill to retire. The long wait has been a trial. Sometimes, in the midnight hours, Eden's phone would ring, and Churchill's voice would say: "I am very tired. I think you must get ready . . ." But in the morning the old man would change his mind again. Sometimes he got a puckish delight out of teasing Eden, and there have been times in recent months when Eden's respect for the "greatest living...
...hundred, to say nothing of twenty-five years. There is still a premium put on hard, honest and earnest pursuit of truth, to wherever it may lead. There is still a healthy respect for ideas, a vicious competition between them, and a realization that professors are not supermen with super-human responsibilities, but just people, with all the rights and foibles of same. As revered in the lull of 1928 as in the crisis of 1953, these principles are part of a truly conservative tradition of the University, a tradition that makes it even today "calm rising through change...
Joseph A. Deguglielmo '29 said that "to ask the police to find the flames is a super-human task." He continued, "we are stamping them as Communists in the mind of the general public through such an investigation and this would insult their patriotism...
...fault cannot, however, be laid at Mr. Casner's feet. For a man with a heavy teaching load, with administrative duties at the Law School, and with time-consuming connections with the National Guard, he has done an almost super-human job of filing away the bits of information that V-7 and the Marine Corps have bothered to send. There is no reason why he should be expected to make a survey single-handed of the myriad opportunities open to college men, when even the Public Relations office has not found time for it. Any one who has tried...