Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dollars Be Damned." With these explanatory words spoken, the Administration moved swiftly in other directions. The National Security Council met with a portentous array of high administrative brass and came to a quick conclusion. As a result, Dwight Eisenhower ordered an urgent and immediate review of the nation's missile program by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, just sworn into office the day before...
...open the off-Broadway Phoenix Theater's fifth season British Director Tyrone Guthrie has offered a Mary Stuart that stresses, that highlights, that exults in its age. Guthrie's production is high-busted, brass-throated, old-style theater. Its smallest scene is a Big Scene; it tosses mere suicide into a scene shift. A sound playwright, Schiller begins virtually at the end-with the Queen of Scots' rash, stormy, ill-starred life behind her and the peers condemning her to death. The play itself, though aswirl with intrigue, assassination plots and lust-devoured deliverers, really turns...
Raintree County is just another movie, only longer. Not even a Boston premiere featuring a slinky starlet and a brass band can disguise the sad truth that this film is almost completely devoid of either sense or dramatic impact. The characters and the events that happen to them just are not interesting enough to justify the three and a half hours it takes this thing to grind to a weary...
...than 250,000 men, 300 ships and 1,500 aircraft are participating in the biggest maneuvers since World War II. Formidable as these forces sound, they do not satisfy NATO's Supreme Commander, blond, boyish-looking U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad. Last week, giving the top military brass of the 15 NATO nations a secret preview of the formal five-year plan that he will submit to NATO's permanent Council next month, Norstad stubbornly reiterated that if it is to be an effective shield against Soviet aggression in Europe NATO must have "about 30 divisions...
...contents of two fields of concentration. However, even though concentration in combined fields is permitted by the University and is mentioned under the rules of some departments in the Rules Relating to college Studies, the average student is usually discouraged when he attempts to combine fields. The lower-echelon brass in the departmental offices will quicky announce, "Never heard of such a thing. I'm sure it can't be done." The trusting student usually makes no further effort...