Word: columning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blake went even further when he said in his column, "In perhaps no community of the same size in the whole world is there so close and so intelligent a following of the drama as in and near Harvard Square. There is never an hour of the day or night when plays are not being rehearsed, acted or written." Cataloguing the productions of that year here, Blake counted language plays by the French, German, Spanish and Chinese clubs; an Old English play by the English Club of Radcliffe; an Elizabethan drama by Upsilon, three uncredited productions of modern plays written...
...between a intellectual community and Main Street will always exist because people think a university concerns itself with ideas and inquiry instead of day-to-day practicalities. In Harvard's case, this gap has widened into antagonism. This can best be seen spread over the Letters to Editors column in daily papers and in the statements of many elected representatives of the people in the State and National legislatures. If the gap widens in the next few years as it has in the last, it may result in withholding of governmental contracts and use of the University's state charter...
When the enemy had overrun the city and surrounded it to a depth of three miles. General Dean gave the retreat order and led the last Americans in a motor column south from Taejon. Outside the city, he picked up seven walking wounded, loaded them into his jeep and climbed aboard the prime mover of a howitzer. At an enemy roadblock. Dean's aide and his interpreter were wounded. Finally the battered motorcade was stopped by a stalled truck which blocked the road. Dean ordered the vehicles abandoned, and led the men on foot across country into a bean...
...poor creature," cried an impassioned columnist in A.B.C., "paid with her life for the injustices of law made by man for men . . . Let her sacrifices bear the fruits of much-needed revision of our entire legal system giving women the rights they are entitled to in modern society." The column was written by Senora Mercedes Formica, beautiful and intelligent daughter of a prominent Andalusian family, and one of the few Spanish women who have climbed past restrictions and triumphed over taboos to achieve a career (a successful law practice). From all over Spain hundreds of letters poured into A.B.C., most...
...format of yesterday's paper was changed to resemble that of the New York Times, with one-column headlines and editorials in small type. When they stopped at the Times Building to deliver a copy to Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Times publisher, a group of pickets boohed the newspaper-carrying editors...