Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third speaker from the Philippines explained to the capacity audience in Littauer Auditorium how his country, which has "stood fast" on the side of Democracy, had put down the communist threat...
...ready to enter high school, his family unhesitatingly sold the homestead and moved to Saskatoon. In school John read the speeches of British parliamentary orators, developed his own florid Victorian style by speaking from a stage while an uncle listened critically from the back of an empty auditorium. Moving on to the University of Saskatchewan, young Diefenbaker joined the ranks of the campus apprentice politicians who ran the debating society, heatedly argued national issues in a mock Parliament. He devoured political biographies (a special hero: Lincoln), won better-than-average marks and a forecast in the college magazine The Sheaf...
Bernard Shaw is having quite a week, for he had last night three different productions on the local boards. As the fourth event of the Harvard-MIT Summer Series, Kresge Auditorium was the scene of the formal world premiere of Dear Liar, "a play for two vioces" by Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell...
Addressing 250 people in Littauer Auditorium, Allen said that Nasser requires a large army to keep him in power. But to justify this publicly, the Egyptian dictator must point to some foreign enemy. That alleged foreign enemy, he said, is Israel...
...Efficient, charming, she carries the informal title of "assistant to the president," works in a Chinese-modern office next to her husband's Spartan, oak-paneled room, "unofficially" runs the women's pages of the Chandler papers. Current pursuit: the drive to establish a $55 million civic auditorium and music center (against opposition that fairly cringes at the sound of her name...