Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Disneyland off limits, Khrushchev was driven behind police escort through shopping centers, housing developments, and the U.C.L.A. campus. Ambassador Lodge told Khrushchev that he could stop anywhere; Khrushchev, once again detached and dubious-looking, chose not to stop anywhere, hardly looked out of the windows of his closed car. That night at a civic dinner in the Ambassador Hotel, Khrushchev found himself once again beside Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson keynoted a speech in which he was supposed to be introducing Khrushchev to an echo of Patrick Henry. "You shall not bury us," he told Khrushchev...
Exulting in what he chose to call his liberation from "house arrest" of security, the Russian Premier got off the train carrying him from Los Angeles at nearly every stop and mingled with tightly packed station crowds...
Kaufman, this time in collaboration with Moss Hart, also wrote The Man Who Came to Dinner, which the Harvard Summer Theatre Group chose to put on in the Union Common Room. Resourcefully directed by Julius L. Novick '60 under difficult conditions, this witty satire about the notorious Alexander Woollcott emerged as a highly entertaining production. Mikel Lambert '59, as Maggie, gave the most consistently fine performance--poised, polished, and sensitive. Other good work came from Earle Edgerton '56 (in the title role), Richard Dozier '60, Marguerite Tarrant '59, John Wolfson '60, and Erich Segal...
...workshop leaders, William Alfred, associate professor of English, plans to raise from eight to twelve the number of freshmen in his "informal seminar in literature and writing." Applications for Alfred's group, which will take the place of Gen Ed A, originally number 60, and he will chose the final dozen from 20 still under consideration...
...save a world war with the Soviet Union or surrender to the Soviet Union." Among the godless, American surrender as the proper alternative was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three-to-one. And the group of 215 who chose war included over four-fifths of those who were also willing to affirm a belief in the immortality of the soul (all but fourteen persons), while 35 per cent of the non-believers took the opposite stand in favor of surrender...