Word: tells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court records describe the dark little drama-how the defendant ran from two suspicious policemen and threw his pistol into a lot, how he was caught, dragged back, and how the weapon was found. They tell of his pleas for mercy, made at first in Italian through a court interpreter, and finally in English, and they repeat the words of a forgotten judge...
Hindemith believes that composers are generally the best teachers of composition. "If you want to know how to design a bridge, you get an engineer to tell you." More than this, he thinks that composers should teach, not only as a means of support, but as a responsibility to future generations of musicians. "Since Bach," he says, "hardly any of the great composers have been outstanding teachers. Today, when there is a general lack of skill in the technique of composition, no composer should withdraw from teaching...
Edward A. Shils, visiting lecturer on Sociology, will tell Europeans about the United States this winter at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies. Shils is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and formerly a member of the faculty of the London School of Economics...
...Dean Hutchins in?" he asked. "I'm Hutchins," replied the young man in flannels. "Come in and tell me what you know about the law of evidence." From that meeting on, Philosopher Mortimer Adler was to learn a lot about the dean-and so was the rest of the world. Out of their acquaintance was to come a challenge aimed at everything that many U.S. colleges and universities had come to hold most estimable: spreading campuses, more & more courses, a steady stream of glossy new facts. The sharp question that Hutchins was to put to U.S. higher education...
...Reports. This week, with the Big Seven title safely tucked away for an other year, Wilkinson & Co. have an old score to settle. They meet tough Santa Clara, the team that spoiled their other wise perfect season last year. Notre Dame's Leahy, after studying the films, will tell his players exactly how many errors they committed against North Carolina (by Leahy's count they committed 88 in beating Michigan State the week before), and pound them into readiness for Iowa...