Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King Lear. For his return to the U.S. stage after nine years abroad, Orson Welles chose a tragedy as theatrically challenging as it is tremendous. His King is every inch a showman. His Lear is often pictorially brilliant. But it is hardly, on Shakespeare's terms, Lear; nor, even on Welles's terms, successful...
...first concert of the Harvard Freshman Glee Club and the Radcliffe Freshman Chorus was very carefully planned. For three months the singers had been rehearsing three times a week and, for their initial program, they chose no pieces of extraordinary difficulty. This care was well worth while; on Sunday night an overflow crowd at the Union was treated to an excellent concert...
...reaffirmed an earlier ruling that a state fair-trade law could be enforced only against those retailers who had signed fair-trade agreements,* thus touched off a wave of defections. Toastmaster division of McGraw Electric Co., a longtime staunch defender of price fixing, discontinued enforcement in Michigan, thus chose the course taken there by General Electric weeks earlier. By week's end Sunbeam Corp., which had never willingly permitted its products to be discounted, joined the surrender and canceled all its fair-trade contracts with Michigan retailers. The State Supreme Court's decision, said Sunbeam President R.P. Gwinn...
...children were ruthlessly killed by a troop of Mormons. The Civil War interrupted the Federal Government's prosecution of the case, involving 36 suspects, and by the time the war was over, the Government was ready to compromise and accept one Mormon head in token payment. Brigham Young chose Lee. In 1870, Lee was excommunicated from the Mormon Church. Insulted with impunity, he still kept his chin up, and when Bishop Roundy "shook hands & said, You are [now] as Rough as an old Grisley, I replied . . . Every Dog will have his day & a Bitch two afternoons . . . Now is your...
...Fransciscan could not legally leave South Station by train until 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 21st. Accordingly, he would not come rolling in until Christman Eve, barely in time to hang up his stocking, and certainly too late to fill anyone else's. The foolhardy gent who chose to ride the bus could arrive no sooner than noon on Christmas Day assuming that the bus was on time, too late to give and worse, too late to receive, too late for carols and too late for church, in fact, too late for anything but a hasty swallow of eggnog before...