Word: conduction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most unequivocal language, the six senators of both parties, who made up the select committee, called McCarthy to account for his conduct in two of the five main groups of charges. He was, they declared, both contemptuous in his refusal to appear before the Hendrickson Committee (which investigated his finances in 1952) and reprehensible in his treatment of General Zwicker. In a manner entirely free from timidity or politicking, they unanimously asked for his censure on both these counts...
What they did, instead, was to make an incomplete gesture that leaves the problem little clarified. Although they felt that such conduct could not be condoned, they hesitated to recommend censure, preferring to give McCarthy "the benefit of whatever doubts and uncertainties have confused the issue in the past...
Venice's handsome La Fenice theater was festively decked with roses as the full-dress crowd drifted in from gondolas. On hand in person to conduct the world premiere, wearing a white suit and red tie, was Composer Britten, 40. On a stark stage, British Tenor Peter Pears sang the prologue ("It is a curious story. I have it written in faded ink . . ."). From then on. the plot followed the outlines of the Henry James chiller about a young governess in an English country house who attempts to protect her young charges from the evil doings of a pair...
...China, and growing tension between the U.S. and its allies, a course in America's foreign policy should be particularly timely. Winthrop House Senior Tutor Daniel S. Cheever--a fine lecturer--should therefore draw an unusually large crowd through the doors of Littauer Auditorium for his Government 190, "The Conduct and Control of Foreign Policy...
Avenue Presbyterian Church. As chairman of the Board of Preachers. Buttrick will conduct services in the Memorial Church in Harvard Yard; as Plummer professor of Christian morals, he will teach the New Testament to undergraduates, will also teach in Harvard Divinity School...