Word: aprile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necessity for new elections has been obvious since April, when the ruling Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League split and Nu accepted Communist support to avoid parliamentary defeat. That split, and the concessions it caused Nu to make to Burma's Communists, also threatened to open the way for the Communists to achieve more at the polls than they had ever won in years of fitful jungle revolt...
Starting off with a good production of Beaumarchais' Marriage of Figaro, which toured all seven Houses and the Union, the HTG reached its peak in April, 1951, with a compelling production of Kingsley's Darkness at Noon, which had a run in Sanders simultaneously with the play's Broadway run. Resourceful designer David A. Hays '52 coped with the inadequacy of Sanders by constructing his sets on two revolving stages. The show was rightly described as "undoubtedly the finest undergraduate drama presented at Harvard in more than two years...
...numbered side, but no signs whatsoever on the even side. The normal propensity of an unsuspecting person would be to avoid the odd side at all times and to assume that parking on the unposted side was allowable at all times. But actually, this is true only in February, April, June, August October, and December. In all other months a car must be parked on the even side during the day and until 1 a.m.; at 1 a.m. it must be towed to the odd side, and at 6 a.m. it must be returned to the even side. However, there...
Though T.S. Eliot, cruel April's bard, Once found romance's wasteland bleak and hard...
Thus Punch reviewed Eliot's latest play. The Elder Statesman (TIME, Sept. 8). Cruel April's bard and the elder statesman of Anglo-American letters is 70 this week, and to the surprise of practically everybody, including himself, Thomas Stearns Eliot seems in love with love and life. The poet who was old at 23, when he wrote Prufrock, is getting young in his old age. Last year the erstwhile "aged eagle" talked about taking dancing lessons, and now he can be seen dining out and piloting his 31-year-old wife Valerie across dance floors. "His brow...