Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fear of Fear. Nehru delivered a major address at a dinner given jointly by the Foreign Policy Association, the India League of America, the East and West Association, and the American Institute of Pacific Relations, in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom. Said he: "People talk about India's desire for leadership in Asia. We have no desire for leadership . . . [But] whether we want to or not ... we have to play an important role . . . There is no halfway house . . . Either India makes good [or] she just fades away...
Around 9:30 one night last week, an old gentleman in evening clothes opened the door of a Manhattan hotel ballroom and started to make his way inside. At once, the 1,500 banqueters rose from their tables, and the room rocked with applause. Educator-Philosopher John Dewey nodded his white head, smiled behind his scraggly mustache as scholars and eminent professors clapped until their hands ached. Then everyone joined in a chorus of "Happy birthday...
...ballroom guests were not alone in celebrating John Dewey's 90th birthday. Messages had poured in from all over the world-from President Harry Truman and Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from Pandit Nehru, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Harvard's President James B. Conant and from a hundred U.S. colleges and universities. A dozen foreign nations had planned celebrations. Friends were raising $90,000 for an educational Dewey Birthday Fund. Gruffed John Dewey when a reporter asked him what he thought of it all: "I keep thinking it's a damned funny thing to celebrate...
Meanwhile, in the Louis XIV ballroom of the Hotel Somerset the Harvard Outing Club will put on a Harvard Square Dance. Members of the Outing Club will get the festivities under way with a demonstration of two square dance sets. After that they will mingle among the uninitiated to assist neophyte square dancers...
...less energetic folk, Ruby Newman will supply ballroom music. The whole thing will be very informal and the publicity release claims anything from broomstick skirts to blue jeans will be acceptable...