Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your report on my talk at Hillel House (CRIMSON, March 23) does not misrepresent what I said, but neither does it convey the central point of my remarks or the reasoning behind my objection to compulsory bussing as a solution to the difficult problem of de facto segregation in the public schools...
...Cheers greeted Constantine, the bereaved Queen Mother, and former U.S. President Harry Truman who, 17 years ago to the day, had proposed the Truman Doctrine that saved Greece from Communism. But the loudest applause went to Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios. Detaching himself from the procession as it waited to convey the body to burial at Tatoi Palace, north of Athens, Makarios walked slowly around Constitution Square, waving at the crowd and acknowledging their cries for Enosis-union of Cyprus and Greece...
...step-father. Better than any of the other actors, she is able to lose herself in a memory, ignoring the astonished eyes of both the rehearsal cast and the audience. Above all, she has amazing control over her body; her stiff shivers in the hat shop red-light scene convey all the repulsiveness of her step-father's shameless sexuality...
Machiavelli and the typical Jewish usurer convey little to a modern audience, however, and the play needs a touch of the ham to be saved from mediocrity. The actors play slapstick so well that the production's one weak moment is an off-spring of their own success. In the last act, Barabas gets caught in his own plot and sinks to a painful death in a "deep pit past recovery." His wile has betrayed him, and his snarling vengeance ("Damn'd Christians, dogs, and Turkish Infidels,") echoes across the stage. Having avoided the serious side of Barabas' treachery until...
...intends to involve himself in the selection process, must assess all applicants to his House solely from an application form. Surely even a brief interview with a tutor provides the Master with slightly better information on which to base his choice. Interviews further serve in some small way to convey information about the House to the prospective applicants...