Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City Ballet's version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker has become something of a Manhattan institution at Christmas time, and CBS chose it for its only live color broadcast of 1958. Once past the opening scene's heavy-footed family frolic, the production made a softly bright delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline...
Barrett Wendell chose History and Lit as the discipline with which to start the concentration system because, according to Perkins, he saw a "natural intellectual union" between history and literature. History was then taught mainly in terms of institutions--politics, battles and dates--and Wendell and his colleagues felt that a study of literature would make history come alive and that history would make literature more meaningful...
...people who are "top-notch ttuors in both fields." He himself moved into History and Lit, not for an insight into a cultural entity, but "in order not to specialize too soon in either history or literature." Wolff's viewpoint is echoed by a senior concentrator who says, "I chose History and Lit, because I didn't want to spend the rest of my undergraduate life analysing poetry or learning names and dates...
...they looked over Nkrumah's guest list, some London officials dubbed the affair "a conference of conspirators," and the Paris press was openly gloomy about the future of France's former territories, two more of which-the rich Ivory Coast and little Dahomey-last week chose autonomy within the French community. Said Le Figaro solemnly: "A grim race is joined between the French-African community and the countries who swirl in the orbit of 'positive neutralism...
...General Practitioner of the Year, who rates a gold medal, the delegates chose Dr. Lonnie Alfonso Coffin, 68, of Farmington, Iowa, who has been practicing there for 44 years, ten of them as the town's only physician, and eight of them since he had a heart attack. "I practice," said he, "seven days a week and whenever I'm needed...