Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That adjective "wonderful" applies to nearly everything about "South Pacific." Take the story, for instance. It was based on James Michener's Pulitzer Prize "Tales Of The South Pacific," and the relationship of Oscar Hammerstein's piece to Michener's is closer than I would have supposed possible. There are, of course, the wonderful "characters," such as the lusty, nonchalant Luther Billis and the colorful, to say the least, Bloody Mary. There is also the love story of Lt. Joseph Cable and the native girl Liat, beautifully and simply told...
...forum, first in a series of biweekly Sunday night meetings, is designed to bring faculty members and students into closer contact on current issues...
...were the special interests who were spoiling the show? Harry Truman came no closer to defining his term than to refer four times and scathingly to "the Republicans." But, after all, his own party was in the majority. Obviously not all of the Democratic cast were in sympathy with the Democratic author...
Heaman insisted that an investigation would not "improve the problem," and asked for closer student cooperation in improving dining hall service, especially through the House food committees...
Harvard's hapless basketball team came closer to winning a game Saturday night than in 13 previous attempts, but a desperation stab by Cornell's Tom Turner in the final three seconds of play brought the walls tumbling down on the Crimson for the fourteenth consecutive time--the Ithacans...