Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Although staging great characters--Shaw's Caesar--can be an opportunity to demonstrate what made them great, Fry does not achieve this. Yet Fry does make Moses a magnetic leader, a man of inspiration, a man whose motives and courses of action, often at odds with practicality or common sense, are hard for others--and sometimes Moses himself--to understand. Despite all this, the audience develops as much sympathy for Fry's Pharaoh as for his Moses...
...tradition of scholarship. For President Pusey, as for many others, it might seem absurd for a man to be "ultimately concerned" merely with scholarship. But Harvard is not an individual. It is a corporate entity deriving its strength from the fact that its members agree upon a common purpose--the pursuit of their individual visions of truth wherever these may lead. For many, perhaps for most, the search leads to the Christian Revelation of God. But that is the concern not of the University, but of individual teachers and students...
Ideas for gizmos to put in satellites are as common as scientists' notebooks, and they range from TV cameras to dogs and chimpanzees. William J. O'Sullivan Jr. of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics favors satellites that can do useful jobs with no instruments...
...will drop its fiveyear, $500 million modernization program, complete only about $20 million worth of projects under construction. The Baltimore & Ohio in February suffered its first monthly deficit since 1951, lost $990,000. Though still in the black, the Chesapeake & Ohio reported a decline in first-quarter earnings on common stock from $1.75 last year...
...Harvard competition for the Barrett Wendell prize will be held Wednesday, April 16, at 8:45 p.m. in the Eliot House junior common room; the Radcliffe contest, for the sophomore Oliver-Dabney prize, will start at 3:30 p.m. in the Ghirlandajo Room of Agassiz House. Free beer will be available at the Harvard event; Radcliffe is to serve tea to the audience...