Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total U.S. contribution: $700 million a year). Reportedly, Taylor now had the authority to support air strikes against Viet Cong supply lines at his discretion. But Taylor made clear that first some political stability must be visible in Saigon. Again the Buddhists (TIME cover, Dec. 11) reminded everybody how dim the prospect seems...
...listening ear allow no part of Australia's mores to go unrecorded. In Down at the Dump, he describes the funeral of the town tart with Gogolian rambunctiousness. Willy-wagtails by Moonlight is an equally authoritative (and equally comic) account of a dinner party of two couples. The dim hostess, Nora, "made a point of calling her husband's employees by first names, trying to make them part of a family which she alone, perhaps, would have liked to exist." Her more earthy guest, Eileen Wheeler, had been a school chum. "She had tried to tell Nora...
...boards that count are the stacks of plates and flatware wrapped in napkins; vanished, like the overhead light, are the women in sensible, street-length silks. More and more, the discriminating tables across the land are set with ornate silver on cloths of heirloom lace. And, gleaming in the dim, expensive light of tall candles, sit some of the handsomest people in some of the handsomest dresses that the age provides. The New Elegants have rediscovered the pleasure of dressing...
...myself only went on the last night of the run, and then without any idea of how memorable and moving the performance would prove to be. Though there was a problem of inaudibility for those far back in the theater, and the lighting was rather dim in Act I, the use of Stark Young's translation and quality of acting and direction made this an extraordinary theatrical event... Personally I would like to see it a second time, and perhaps a third. Mark Roskill Assistant Professor Department of Fine Arts
Teamwise the Crimson should finish third or fourth, behind the two service teams and possibly behind Brown. Harvard's dim hope for first place died when John Ogden's cold turned out to be more serious and Keith Chiappa and the soccer team decided that, on the weekend of the Princeton game, soccer and cross-country...