Word: eventer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berlin. In the event of a Red blockade of Berlin, the U.S. would face a poor tactical position. Destruction of bridges, railways and roads could block overland supplies, and radar jamming could make mass airlifts difficult. Berlin's biggest need would be the raw materials on which its new industrial prosperity is based. The city gets much of this from East Germany itself, and the President fears that the West might not be able to fill the demand if normal supplies were...
...performance by Alec Guinness is a major event (though one may, as it turns out, be more major than another). For Guinness, together with Brando and Gielgud, constitute the reigning triumvirate of English-speaking actors...
...their lines and cues down pat, the pace of the performance will accelerate and acquire structure, and in all probability the Tufts production will have become more than adequate. I choose to look on the bright side because the American premiere of Ugo Betti's masterpiece is not an event to be missed. For later productions will fully certify its claim to be one of the great plays of the twentieth century--as timely as the latest headline from Geneva, as timeless as the struggle of man's will with fate...
Soloists include George Kirklin '59, Samuel Kim '58, and Edward Martin '60. Conductor of the Summer Band, which is in its first season, is Bernard Wiseblatt '57. In the event of rain the concert will be held in Sanders Theatre...
...Shaw's own sexual history was an odd one. He lost his chaste treasure on his 29th birthday, to the importunities of a widow lady named Jenny Patterson, who won by her persistence an immortality in such parentheses as this. After this momentous event Shaw slept around casually and childlessly for several years, until in his middle forties he married a "green-eyed Irish millionairess" after she had nursed him through a serious illness. After the wedding, in accordance with certain prejudices of his wife's, he gave up sex forever, and the two of them dwelt together, chaste...