Word: displays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However well one might have been prepared for Saturday night's frustrating display, it is always disappointing to see a superior team lose in the manner that the varsity lost to B.C. The Crimson, rallying after a shockingly bad start, dominated play for the better part of the evening. Its plays were much more organized than were those of B.C., but the varsity showed its almost traditional weakness of being unable to finish off a scoring play...
When Touraine's lights up with Christmas decorations and Coop windows display ties for Papa and a candy cane for sister Sue, the CRIMSON winter competition is about to begin...
...stressing the importance of making India a "showcase" for democracy's industrial potential, Lippmann may be overemphasizing the sub-continent's value as a propaganda display. Certainly the problems in India are immense and the strategic value of the area cannot be overestimated. It would, however, be unfortunate to concentrate all our efforts in India at the expense of other Asian and African nations equally vulnerable to Communist appeal...
...Spanish tide"; Seumas Cullen, the Dublin painter who established his reputation on one painting, which he exhibits year after year; a poison-pen writer named Peadar, who vents his spleen on a local landlady by addressing a note to "The Biggest Old Bitch in Ballyknock." In a classic display of Gaelic futility, an Irish museum hangs the Chaos canvas upside down ("We're a young country," pleads the director), and Tommy deserts the revolutionary game for a job in a travel agency engaged in selling Ireland's hobnailed charms to rich and innocent Americans...
...contemporary pieces too bizarre or difficult. The big numbers should not last more than about seven minutes, and they should be substantial without being excessively weighty. Variety is important, but the works must not be incongruous. And there should be a few, but not too many, sure-fire display pieces...