Word: establishments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Literature," wrote Max Beerbohm, "has many a solemn masterpiece that one would without a qualm barter for that absurd and riotous one." In society, as in print, Gilbert began to establish himself as a formidable zany. When asked, for instance, if he had "seen a member of this club with one eye called Matthews," Gilbert shot back: "What's his other eye called?" He turned this compulsion for dialogue to the writing of plays, and was already the leading comic writer of the London stage when he was introduced to Sullivan...
...play in the broad sense; it a fragment, an episode in the lives of two people, and as such relies on the individual portrayals for its basic appeal. I found both Donald Stewart and Madelon Hambro more than capable of meeting this challenge; they were able to establish full characterizations in a short period of time with apparent case. Although local theatergoers have had the privilege of watching Stewart before, Miss Hambro, an Emerson student, is new here, and in her debut she indicated that he rtalents can be a definite asset to the HTG in the future...
...bill he has introduced in the Senate. Its purpose: to encourage more presidential preference primaries in the states this year. But what the Illinois Senator and some others really want is embodied in a proposal by Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers: a U.S. constitutional amendment to establish national presidential primaries and abolish national party conventions...
Meanwhile, in Washington yesterday, Rep. Shafer (R-Mich.) said a House coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats will buck the Administration again this week by opposing the bill to establish U.M.T...
Yale President A. Whitney Griswold announced that the gift will be used to establish a Professorship of English Literature bearing Brodman's name. A member of the Class of 1905, Brodman died...