Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caracas they had invited representatives from most of the nations of the world. Somewhat to the Caraqueños' surprise, nearly all of them came, and the city (pop. 266,000) was hard put to it to take care of so many V.I.P.s. All told, 37 nations sent representatives. The U.S. sent down an aircraft carrier and a destroyer, a planeload of diplomats and generals, and Poet Archibald MacLeish to represent President Truman...
...been a normal condition of American colleges for years that one third of the so-called students were in the way, cluttering up the place and interfering with other people's intellectual progress. If we need more room to take care of the boom in 1960, let us create a good part of it by clearing out the useless lumber that we have already...
...multiplying college facilities until they can care for every high school graduate who doesn't want to go to work, the commission is not doing the colleges or the country any favor. . . . How the commission hopes to multiply the sheepskins and have fewer sheep, I cannot guess. . . . This program threatens to suffocate us with tides of mediocrity...
Peter Grimes, by Britain's gifted young Benjamin Britten (TIME, Feb. 16), was unquestionably a success-the most successful new opera the Met had put on in years. It was not, however, the success it had been in Europe. The Met had lavished great care on it: the chorus sang well, Emil Cooper's orchestra did handsomely by Britten's tricky music (the best of his music is written for the orchestra, not for the soloists). But the Met just couldn't break itself of its old habits. Frederick Jagel neither looked nor acted the difficult...
...patrolmen, huddled in their squadcar on a windswept corner of the Square, just laughed when asked if they had chosen to work the all-night shift. "I really don't mind it" said one stubble-chinned old sergeant, "but the young fellows don't care too much for it. They'd rather be out with the women, I guess...