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...play is one of Shakespeare's earliest and it is his most frivolous. A group of scholars vow to live three years isolated from all female companionship, but the arrival of a French princess and her female entourage challenges and soon ridicules the pledge. Upon this comedy of incident is built the larger and more important comedy of words; poetic dialogue is the main mirth of the play. In provocative contrast, the concluding prose lines suggest both tragedy and the Shakespaere of tragic fruition. "The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo," says philosophic Armado after...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/25/1951 | See Source »

...earliest opportunity, a committee interviewed management and non-striking workers, and reported to our executive board, in general upholding the union position. The motion passed at that meeting included "sympathy" with the union and "doubt" as to management's methods. It included a statement that "we cannot support picketing as it will do no good." Our position had not changed appreciably from what it had been in the first place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Fairly Consistent" | 5/5/1951 | See Source »

Churchill would not be human if he did not deplore the way he was thrust from office after having carried his nation through its hardest war. It is certainly understandable if he believes that the electorate should have, and at the earliest opportunity, another chance to redress this regrettable mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: BRITAIN IN 1951 | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Radcliffe Administrative Council has voted to begin the building at the "earliest possible date." It will join Moors Hall and face Garden Street. Built entirely of "planned" double rooms, Holmes will house 102 students and will serve as a center of student musical activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Seeks For $225,000 For New Hall | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

Harvard's earliest contribution to the after-care of polio victims was the Infantile Paralysis Commission, established in 1916, and now known as the Massachusetts Infantile Paralysis Clinic...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: University Contributes to Fight Against Polio; Doctors Develop New Electric Breathing Aid | 3/2/1951 | See Source »

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