Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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King's address, which was originally expected to deal with what the Committee called in its invitation letter "Asian conflict and urban crisis," had been scheduled for the morning of Class Day in the Sever Quandrangle. But it is understood that Mrs. King's remarks may be brief, and the Committee may change its plans for the speech...
...local Indians did not share the enthusiasm of their benefactors--only six appear to have enrolled at Harvard over the entire colonial period. For the first comers, Harvard hired two Indian-speaking tutors who were to teach Greek, Latin and theology. Their careers were brief: One tutor disappeared soon after he arrived and the other was dismissed for "slinging stones at Mr. Stedmans glass Windowes...as also giveing base and filthy language." President Chauncy, fearing the same outcome if he hired new tutors, appealed to the London Society to pay larger salaries to instructors who "have to deale with such...
...Cappella, and then roared out loud as Bruscantini and Carlo Badioli, an even funnier man, rapped out a two-bass hit with the huffa-buffa La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Rossini's first stage work. This week the troupe will pack the show on their backs for a brief tour of the U.S. and Canada, where audiences will no doubt agree that while in North America, it is perfectly acceptable for the Piccolo Teatro Musicale to continue to do as the Romans...
Beneath the bitchy, lancing wit of the verbal byplay, Playwright Mart Crowley keeps a dead-level eye on the desolating aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...
After spending $20 million to develop a miniaturized on-board TV camera for the Apollo spacecraft and equip tracking stations to receive its signals, NASA officials last month decided to limit its use to only two brief transmissions - one during the third manned orbital flight, the other while astronauts are actually walking on the surface of the moon. NASA's official reason for the curtailed use of in-flight TV was that the camera (which weighs only 71 Ibs.) pushed Apollo too close to its weight limitations...