Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...health, education, water resources development, highway construction, urban renewal programs. He would, he promised, soon convene a committee of educators, businessmen, labor leaders and professional men to make a new study of new "national objectives"-which presumably could be pursued by private as well as Government effort. The common denominator of cold-war defense and domestic growth: fiscal integrity. ''Thrift is one of the characteristics that has made this nation great. Why should we ignore...
...Common Decencies. As realistic men, the jurists had no illusions that these vital safeguards to liberty would sweep the earth overnight. "Our business here," said India's ex-Supreme Court Judge Vivian Bose, "is to see whether we as lawyers, judges and jurists cannot stir the conscience of the world into insisting that there shall be certain common decencies for all men in all lands." To some it might seem improbable that the conscience of the world would ever greatly affect the actions of totalitarian rulers. But the men who met in New Delhi last week had behind them...
...comic scenes, full of bawling, bibulation, and bawdry, appear to have been written as noisy relief from the prevailing mood of quiet delicacy. But this mood is enunciated with such graceful strength in the set, that although Mr. Benthall puts his actors through all the burps and stumbles common in Shakespearean slapstick (or at least allows them a free hand in this respect), they never seem coarse or even very vigorous. The basis of the comic subplot is the duping of Malvolio, the puritanical steward, by a group of cheerful tosspots--a little joke which has occasionally struck critics...
John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House, suggested that a special alumni program might be arranged in the Common Room to discuss changes that have taken place. "For some time we have had small meetings with graduates who arrive before reunion activities," Finley added...
...Winthrop House musical, to be performed April 15 through April 18, is a satire on England in the 1920's. Casting will take place Feb. 3,4, and 5 in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room, according to David R.Pursley '60, codirector for The Boy Friend...