Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, D.C., one morning last week, Principal Mildred Green of the Raymond elementary school solemnly walked into her auditorium, faced her audience of new pupils, and calmly began a special opening-day speech. She chose her words carefully, for this year, for the first time, her once all-white school was going to be 50% Negro. "This," said she, "isn't a school until you make it one. What kind of a school it will be depends upon you . . . You can make it happy by being fine and friendly and kind to each other...
...rocks, rebuffs in Indo China, and growing tension between the U.S. and its allies, a course in America's foreign policy should be particularly timely. Winthrop House Senior Tutor Daniel S. Cheever--a fine lecturer--should therefore draw an unusually large crowd through the doors of Littauer Auditorium for his Government 190, "The Conduct and Control of Foreign Policy...
...point and had a pinch of snuff, while Berlioz himself leaped to the podium to save the performance. Conductor Munch last week took no chance on faulty entrances, had his warning arm pointing straight toward heaven four bars ahead. The brass bands broke loose (two were placed in the auditorium, giving a kind of stereophonic effect) ; they sounded for all the world like the trumps of doom...
...smiling Oriental ladies gathered in knots on street corners. Incongruous beside the traffic lights and parked convertibles moved icon-like faces, brown and bearded, with heavy gold chains and swirling robes. Clutching blue Official Handbooks printed in French, German and English, they hurried from hall to meeting room to auditorium to teas, shuttled in 20 buses along the long straggle of Northwestern's campus to the plenary sessions at McGaw Hall...
Rastvorov phlegmatically faced some 200 correspondents in the State Department auditorium, talked innocuously about his background in fluent but heavily accented English. His mother, he said, secretly had him baptized when he was a baby, but was too fearful even to tell his father. His grandfather was turned off a small farm by the government because he once hired a man to help him get in the crops; the grandfather subsequently starved to death. His uncle was an army doctor who was taken prisoner by the Germans, was put through a three-year "quarantine camp" on his return to Russia...