Word: deal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year 1958 provided serious theatregoers in the Boston area with a good deal of summer dramatic fare. The season as a whole fell somewhat short of last summer's level, which was the highest within memory. Still, there were plenty of things this summer to be especially thankful...
...season included the tryouts of two new plays, which sandwiched a hammy production of The Happiest Millionaire (with Victor Jory). The first tryout was Sweet and Sour, by Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke. It proved to be just one more play about the younger generation's attempt to deal with an intractable old father. The authors obviously thought they were writing the Jewish counterpart of Life With Father, but their play will never have 3183 performances on Broadway. They fell into most of the traps that Schulman avoided in A Hole in the Head. The old Jew was played...
...heartening factor concerns money, and it will take a great deal of it to finance the program outlined by the CEP report. A recent gift of $100,000 from Procter and Gamble to the Program for Harvard College has been ear-marked for the Honors Program Fund, and this hopefully is the first of many steps towards financing what in future years may prove to be the most significant development in education since education became General
Morris had to stick to his beliefs despite Harvard's Lost Generation. The whole thing was a good deal like discovering that yogurt is milk with more bacteria and the Communists are against child-labor. But Morris did survive, and now edits a little magazine. Sic semper tyrannus...
...industry." Khrushchev understood, "because of the expense to us of our own defense effort," but said: "We are being driven most reluctantly to these expenditures." To illustrate the U.S. desire for peace, Eaton told Khrushchev about Industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who amassed a fortune of $500 million, gave a great deal of it away to promote peace. To make this more meaningful. Eaton paused and asked the translator to convert the $500 million into rubles. Added Eaton: "I would like you to think of a man like Andrew Carnegie as being representative of American industrialists...