Word: throughly
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Each year 150,000 able students are frightened away from higher education, mostly for lack of money. But opportunity for them is emerging, notably through an extraordinary proliferation of public community colleges (total U.S. enrollment: 900,000). California leads the way with 63 such institutions (400,000 students). They provide...
Cinch for the Sit-in. Although New York educators had long suspected the existence of the ghost-scholar racket, they were still understandably upset by Benson's evidence. Said Dr. Hollis L. Caswell, president of Teachers College: "The general moral tone in our country is tending to encourage this...
Against the Moon, Another great disciple of Dürer was the little-known Albrecht Altdorfer, who worked chiefly as an architect and lives through no more than two dozen surviving pictures. As a painter, he ranks close to Durer himself. The Pinakothek has six Altdorfers, including the fabulous picture...
The piano soloist with Reiner's Chicago Symphony was Rudolf Serkin, who virtually alone among major pianists will attempt Bartok's fiendishly difficult work (at the premiere, recalls Reiner, Bartok himself made several mistakes). In preparation for the concerto, Reiner put his orchestra through five long rehearsals, three...
McCoy springs few surprises. A trim, energetic man at 56, he leads his seven-man band through Hot Lips, Basin Street Stomp, and other items of Dixieland "sugar stuff." The arrangements are as predictable as a TV script, and the sound is unexceptional. With his horn in his right hand...