Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speech before the American Association of School Adminstrators on April 7. President Conant delivered a disturbing blast against private education. It is hard to tell from the newspaper reports of the speech exactly how far Mr. Conant meant to go, but one's impression is that he is made uneasy by the very fact that private schools--religious and secular--exist alongside the public high schools. Not even the best private schools would seem to escape his strictures altogether...
...world dances to its sexy rumbas and mambos. Its socialites dine off gold plate, and its sumptuous casinos are snowed under by the pesos of sugar-rich playboys. The "dance of the millions" that Cuba knew in its brief post-World War I sugar boom is going again full blast. Batista brought off his coup at the top of Cuba's market...
...nation's worst railroad disasters (81 killed). After World War II, a long and bitter strike resulted in the shotgun killing of two strikers (TIME, Feb. 18, 1946). In 1947, T.P. & W.'s anti-union President George McNear Jr. was himself killed by a shotgun blast in a still unsolved murder...
...speech before the American Association of School Administrators on April 7, President Conant has delivered a disturbing blast against private education. It is hard to tell from the newspaper reports of the speech exactly how far Mr. Conant meant to go, but one's impression is that he is made uneasy by the very fact that private schools--religious and secular--exist along side the public high schools. Not even the best private schools would seem to escape his strictures altogether...
Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary Bartlett, and Barry Morley are all outstanding in the principal singing roles. Miss Hubbard, as Katisha, is particularly excellent, her fine contralto voice and knack for slapstick evoking enthusiastic audience approval in the patter song, "There Is Beauty in the Bellows of the Blast." The whole production was helped greatly by the crisp singing of the on-and off-stage chorus, a tribute to Musical Director Norman Shapiro...