Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wolfe wrote the play while he was doing graduate work here in Professor George Pierce Baker's "Forty-seven Workshop," and before he achieved fame as a novelist. The play presents the rise and decay of a Southern family during the Civil War period. It is an eloquent plea for the cause of the ex-soldier of that...
Most of them now work in a reconverted wing of the Sperry Gyroscope Plant at Lake Success, L.I. Their offices, nicknamed "rabbit warren," are cramped, mostly without windows, and erratically air-conditioned. The international civil servants work hard, gripe some, get on without nationalist friction but also without ardent international friendship. Few of them have a sense of high mission in their work; last week, their foremost hope was that the Assembly would get done before Christmas. But most observers agreed that they were doing a workmanlike job of keeping the Assembly grinding away at its curiously varied tasks...
This meant that President Truman's directive of last December, under which General George C. Marshall sought a compromise conclusion to China's civil war, had been outdated by events. Chiang's successes in the field had invalidated it. The Assembly meeting made hope for mediation dim as starlight...
...Business. Last June he embraced Catholicism intensively; in one day Giannini, whose non-practicing Catholic father and English Protestant mother had never had him baptized, received four sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist and Matrimony (he remarried the woman to whom he had been wed in a civil ceremony years before...
Inside its first cover (Montana's Fort Peck dam, by Margaret Bourke-White), the 225,000 charter subscribers and 200,000 newsstand buyers found picture stories of King Edward VIII, the black widow spider, Robert Taylor, and Spain in civil...