Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are other ways of bypassing the code, which stipulates that a broadcaster "should not accept advertising material which describes or dramatizes distress," e.g., commercials showing muscles throbbing with pain. Also questionable is the indiscriminate use of such words as "safe," "without risk" and "harmless." Broad casters also often resort to pseudo-pharmaceutical names or impressive "scientific" terms that the average viewer may not understand ("If you're tired from lack of thiamin and riboflavin . . ."). Others relate doctors and celebrities to a product by innuendo...
Despite the difficulty it gives some of the actors, this static way of staging Major Barbara is admirable. It is admirable because Laughton was willing to accept the play for what it is, at once a sermon and exhilirating theater. The director permitted Shaw to speak, enabling the old man to vindicate himself as a comedian--because the play is often very funny--and to prove it possible to make a play out of ideas. Perhaps the highest praise this production can get is that Shaw would have approved...
President Eisenhower has come to grips with some issues in foreign affairs, but he has made few advances over his Democratic predecessor. He has accepted the containment policy; he has tried, but failed, to make progress on disarmament; he has continued the economic aid program; and he has put forth an encouraging atoms-for-peace plan that, while it is just barely getting off the ground, is an imaginative response to the world's desire for rapid economic progress. But the President's foreign policy cannot be separated from that of his Secretary of State, and here the past four...
Tenley Albright '57 will exhibit her championship figure skating technique at a $100-a-plate Olympics dinner Oct. 26 at New York's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, despite a promise to the Harvard Medical School that she would Concentrate on Chem 20 this fall and accept no out-of-town engagements until after Thanksgiving...
Tenley, a Soc Rel major and pre-med student, said that the Medical School admissions department understood her obligation to accept the Olympics invitation. Next week's dinner, a benefit for the Olympic Fund, will be a send-off to U.S. competitors in the November field event Olympics in Australia...