Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City and Regional Planning are concerned with the professional training of graduate students. Facilities currently are under heavy strain since 220 students are enrolled in GSD while Hunt and Robinson Halls can really accommodate a maximum of only 200. Plans are being made for a campaign to enlarge the physical plant of the school. No increase in the enrollment is foreseen, according to Dean Sert, in order to preserve the close knit character of the small school...
What will most grasp the reader's attention, however, is the no-holds-barred sex which enlivens the mid-summer campaign for the governorship of Mississippi. In this connection it is useful that the protagonist, although paunchy and past his prime, is possibly the biggest man with the girls south of Memphis. Also that the two fully developed female characters are nymphomaniacs allows for frequent relaxations from the business of capturing the statehouse. The only problem with all this is that it imposes the necessity of building up to greater and greater exploits and more improbable melodrama. With the first...
...contest with Yale is always the highlight of any varsity season. In recent years, however--particularly in such sports as tennis, squash and swimming--the concluding match with the Elis has also often decided Eastern League and Big Three championship races. The current tennis campaign, which starts next Wednesday with a match against M.I.T., is likely to follow a similar pattern, for coach Jack Barnaby's Crimson varsity and its Yale counterparts again stand out as the two top teams in the East...
...unfortunate that so many talented performers, as well as some nice sets and costumes, should be thrown away on a show of this calibre. About twice as much preparation, as well as a re-staging, might have turned it into a success, but it would have been an uphill campaign...
Against the background of Mexico during the anti-clerical campaign of the 1930's, the last priest in a province fights his drunkenness and cowardice, all the time facing the choice between escape to freedom and staying on to minister to the peasants, who have stuck to their primitive Catholicism through years of socialist poverty. Twice he has a chance to escape: the first time he answers the call of a dying woman, and later he returns from across the border to the aid of a dying man, only to find that he has been trapped by the police...