Word: donee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special class in advanced business management, the library, and the student center Tuesday as part of a cross-country study of economic growth and stability in America. They were "friendly, curious, and asked many questions," one observer remarked. He indicated that they were "receptive" to the work being done in business education and seemed more interested in learning than in teaching...
...Coast admen named Joseph Weiner, 43, and Howard Gossage, 42, who have floated to prominence clinging to champagne bottles, beer kegs, brandy snifters and, of course, fifths of Irish. In the process they have broken almost every advertising rule in the book. Their ads are casually illustrated, almost never done in color, and they can pussyfoot around a subject so quietly that the reader sometimes has trouble telling what the ad is about. What they do have is fun, an aged-in-the-wood humor that tickles readers and rings up billings of $1,000,000 a year from clients...
...colonial empire. What the defeat did accomplish, Mattingly argues, was to halt the spread of the Counter Reformation and provide the English with a handy legend of victory. "It raised men's hearts in dark hours, and led them to say to one another, 'What we have done once, we can do again...
...edge of desperation. Moreover (much moreover), she is equal as an actress to the demands of the part--which is vastly more than can be said for anyone else I can think of in Cambridge. Her fluttery hand-gestures, her nods and becks and agonizingly wreathed smiles are brilliantly done. Her Amanda lacks a final dimension of bravery which might have made the pathos even deeper, but everything else is there...
...play; I do not unreservedly enjoy the sensation of clenching my fingernails into my palms to steel myself against a crescendo of misery. It would be easy to find The Glass Menagerie dreary; I myself would not want to see it again for a long time. If not done well it would probably be intolerable. But in the present representation it is inescapably moving...