Word: displays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Math Teacher Cooper, who grouses that "Aspen is suffering from a national disease known as general education, whose symptoms, sores and scars are in full display," was prepared to pass out Ds and Fs whenever necessary. Sharon and her buddies were prepared to ski in the Nationals. And the other Aspen schoolchildren were prepared to have a rousing good time. A couple of weeks ago, acting on the newly discovered principle that a parent can yank his child out of school whenever he feels like it, 15 of them got parental consent, hookyed off to watch some ski races...
...Festival of Two Worlds, organized by Gian Carlo Menotti (three new ballets by Choreographer Jerome Robbins, a new production of Verdi's Macbeth conducted by the Met's Thomas Schippers). At many other festivals and in countless solo appearances around the world, the U.S. will display an impressive roster of artists. Among them...
...vote was hardly a clear-cut victory for fiscal responsibility. For one thing, with a canny display of practical politicking. Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield and his aides patrolled the Republican cloakroom right up to the count, displaying a list of post offices in members' states that might be rebuilt or modernized with $175 million of the money the new rate would bring...
Dying Corpse. With a display of kasar, rebel Premier Sjafruddin called Bung Karno a coward "who strutted and wore medals but had never fought a war, a man who was so frightened that he wouldn't even go to the bathroom without a bodyguard." The rebels were also disappointed in the inactivity of Mohammed Hatta (who in the midst of last week's maneuvering was discovered quietly lecturing on Islamic history at the University of Indonesia). "Hatta is the undertaker," said Sjafruddin bitterly. "He'll sit quietly while the corpse dies, then conduct a post-mortem...
...most perilous honors in Scotland's academic world is election to the purely decorative post of Rector of the University of Glasgow. In a remarkable display of grace under fire, Britain's Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler last week was installed and violently decorated by fun-loving undergraduates. "By 1970," Rab Butler was telling some 2.000 roaring students, "Britain can expect to increase her wealth by no less than 41%." Then the fun began. While a jazz band blared and soot bombs burst in air, No. 2 Tory Butler plunged stoically onward with his nuclear-energy speech, wearing...