Word: distantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Balloting was therefore limited to the four-fifths of the islanders belonging to the Greek community. Obvious favorite for President was Archbishop Makarios, the bearded, decisive ethnarch of Cyprus' Greeks, who achieved political martyrdom when the British exiled him to the distant Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean in 1956, and since has impressed the British and the Turkish Cypriots with his moderation in victory. But some embittered Greek Cypriots dislike Makarios, because the settlement specifically repudiated enosis (union with Greece) and left Britain sovereign over two bases on the island's south coast. One such dissident...
With her second Broadway role, Anne Bancroft has given her answer-and upstaged her contemporaries. At the summit of the American theater, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley have a brilliant new competitor. Such names as Hayes, Cornell and Fontanne ring distant on the ear-echoes from another generation. "We've come to the end of gracious ladies in the theater," says Producer Harold S. (Fiorello!) Prince. "Why, I don't know. But this girl Bancroft is the greatest there is. She marks the beginning...
Like thousands of other 17-year-olds, Marie Martin and Dave Newby sweated through a College Board exam last week. Unlike most of the others, they were delightfully distant from their high schools in Illinois and Ohio. Ten miles east of the dark mountains of Communist China, Marie and Dave pondered answers in a classroom near Hong Kong. It was another fringe benefit in the maiden voyage of the International School of America, creation of Karl G. Jaeger, a budding (29) industrialist turned teacher. Tuition: $4,650 (including air fare...
...play seems a little lonely, a little too distant from its materials, a little too given to mood. Music does service for speech; the Inge touches, the Inge faces, even where effective, seem overfamiliar. Perhaps the play's too plangent and elegiac title helps express what is unsatisfying about its text...
Some in the village wanted to erect a plaque in the churchyard to their distant benefactors, financed by the first $40 from everyone's dividend check. Later they decided that $8 a head should be plenty. Other villagers argued that instead they should rename the village Saturno. "It's a great honor" said one, adding slyly: "And it costs nothing...