Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a great deal of good acting in the production, but none to measure up to Leonard Baker's exceptionally tasteful Plume. There-are a thousand temptations in this role; Baker is on stage almost constantly and is free to enlist the audience's sympathy with a little skillful hamming if he wants to. It is a great credit to him that he is restrained enough to keep from scene-stealing, but energetic enough to be constantly interesting. It is his job to hold the play together and that he does very well...
...most breathtaking views on the entire coast, the new museum is a gift to France from Paris Art Dealer Aimé Maeght (rhymes with jog). Having made a fortune in the postwar boom selling the works of Chagall, Miró, Kandinsky, Braque and Giacometti, Maeght decided to enlist his artists' aid in building a showcase for their paintings and sculptures. Thus Giacometti was able to help plan the ideal courtyard for his wasted bronze figures, which today are in the open air looking like ghosts out for a stroll. Alexander Calder contributed a 41-ton stabile, a great black...
Film Battle. Unable to throw his enemies out of power, Villa's temper grew worse and his acts more erratic. In 1915, he led his army into open rebellion against the government. He tried to enlist the sympathy of the U.S. press by staging a real battle at the request of a film company. He tried to discredit the regime by raiding the border town of Columbus, N. Mex., and, although he achieved headline notoriety by disappearing with his whole army while General "Black Jack" Pershing led a 12,000-man punitive expedition after him, Obregon did not fall...
...alone," said Lindsay. "I don't think the public will vote for me simply because a distinguished person says they should." It somehow seemed odd that a rather junior Congressman should be turning down aid that even a Democratic President of the U.S. does not hesitate to enlist: rarely does a week go by that Lyndon Johnson does not consult Ike either by telephone or by White House emissary...
...hope," he said, "to enlist the sympathies of a broad spectrum of the faculties of universities and colleges in the greater Boston area." Aiken noted that the committee hoped to have a membership of several hundred soon...