Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followed his guidelines, Dulles was a superb tactician. Traveling an astonishing 559,988 miles in six years, he worked tirelessly to keep diverse peoples and leaders united in common purpose and also to educate himself; he negotiated skillfully at scores of world conferences. When he moved out ahead of public opinion, as he did in trying to push the European Defense Community and to save Quemoy and Matsu, he could yield with a lawyer's tactical skill, always returning to his theme when the times had caught up with...
...join in limiting production to stabilize prices. But as always when Arabs get together, agreement was hard to come by. The Iraqis, feuding with Nasser, were not even present. And Iran, remembering how increased production by Arab neighbors thwarted its plans, was unreceptive to Arab plans for a common front...
...common occurrence among the deans and Senior Tutors to run across "athlete insecurity" among those on scholarship. Often a student will get the idea he was accepted solely because of athletic ability, and feel an obligation to sacrifice other college values to "paying back" his sponsors on the athletic field. Thus the Admissions Committee must be very careful to choose athletes who they are sure will succeed academically, not those that can merely...
...course of an hour between lunch at the Riesmans' and punch with the populace in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room, Tynan ranged, on request, all over the theatrical map. Discussing playwrights unjustly neglected on the commercial stage, he nominated Brecht first of all, added Ibsen, Pirandello and Wedekind, and commented that "Giraudoux has been not neglected, but so often misinterpreted that it's worse than neglect." Jean Genet to Tynan is "a natural, who shouldn't be imitated... He's a bad model but an interesting artist"; Eugene Ionesco is "bright as a button...
...Annex reading will take place Tuesday, April 28, at 3:30 p.m. in the Ghirlandajo Room at Agassiz Theater. Harvard finalists will compete Wednesday, April 29, at 7:45 p.m., in the Eliot House Common Room...