Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very strong counterforces to communism, nationalism and technology, which should cause tendencies towards changes in conant will deliver a special lecture on "Germany and the Defense of Europe" tonight at 8:30 in Sanders Theatre. "philosophy, tactics and composition of communism." He did not predict what the extent of these changes might...
Usually Man and Superman is produced without the Don Juan interlude because the rest of the play is long and the interlude is to some extent extraneous to the action. Director Jerome Kilty was wise, however, to include it, for not only does it make the play a whole, but it also includes some of the best of Shaw's didactic dialogue. For those who may prefer plot to opinions on the artist-man and the mother-woman, combined with discussion of the relative merits of Heaven and Hell, there is the consolation of some very excellent special effects...
...Khrushchev is full of a peasant's energy (despite kidney trouble); he is shrewd, opportunistic, audacious, pragmatic. But he also has a vastly more experienced, stronger and more watchful Communist hierarchy to deal with, and the apparatus of the secret police on which Stalin relied has to some extent been dismantled...
...churches are top-heavy with the managerial elite, he replies that this is true of the communities themselves-hence of their churches. But "even suburbia has its drawers of water and hewers of wood, who enjoy positions of influence in suburban churches in rough proportion to their number and extent of their commitment to the church and its Lord...
DOWNING B. JENKS, president, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co.: "A 3% or 4% increase in carloadings and the possibility of an increase in freight rates should enable the railroads to overcome, to a large extent, the burden of higher wages and material costs, thus ending up the year about as well...