Word: civically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago Chicago Impresario Lawrence V. Kelly undertook the ambitious task of planting grand opera's rococo passions deep in the thorny heart of Texas. His Dallas Civic Opera Company, with Maria Meneghini Callas as its star attraction, was a rousing artistic success but a failure at the box office. Since then Impresario Kelly's operatic transplant has taken firm root in Texas soil: last week the Dallas company rounded out its second season with a chorus of critical bravos and with money pouring into the till...
...role as dictator, Ayub is still no politician; but his willingness to grapple with Pakistan's staggering problems has aroused enthusiasm. A New York Times correspondent notes a new air of "civic virtue" among the rickshaw men, beggars and merchants of Karachi...
Both Mrs. Wheeler and Professor Edwin B. Newman, vice-president of the Cambridge Civic Association, outlined the political history of Cambridge and discussed current trends in University-Cambridge relations...
Welcome to Our City was a sprawling four-hour dramatization of the cross-section of a Southern city caught in the frenzy of the predepression boom years. "Greed, greed, greed--deliberate, crafty, motivated--masking under the guise of civic associations for municipal betterment.... The standards of national greatness are Henry Ford, who made automobiles cheap enough for us all, and money, money, money...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to President Pusey for civic affairs, predicted that a change in policy would be made soon by the Faculty Committee of Phillips Brooks House, which has jurisdiction over the housing office...