Word: formals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polite Applause. But when it came his time to speak, Harry Truman could not join in the general expansiveness. Party harmony, which the dinner supposedly celebrated, had been disintegrating steadily during his eleven months in office. His first formal political speech as President was an earnest "plea for party unity and party responsibility." He knew, as well as everyone who heard him, that those were things that could not be bought with after-dinner speeches...
Propaganda. Talk of socialism pervaded the atmosphere. In Gera the reporters listened to a nearsighted Communist professor, who might have mistaken his visitors for Soviet newsmen, lecture a training class for new teachers. He argued that Britain and the U.S. had "only formal democracy," struck at the British Labor Government, told the class: "Democracy is not the goal but the way to achieve the goal. As I have repeatedly said, the goal is socialism...
...complex hierarchy of Japanese drama, the Kabuki (literally "type of theater"), originated by Folk Dancer O Kuni in 1603, comes closest to the western theater. Less formal than the classical Noh drama, its stages extend into the audience like burlesque runways. Actresses are rare in Kabuki, and Nizaemon was equally at home in both male and female parts. As the leading lady in Akoya he had to perform expertly on three difficult musical instruments. His interpretation of the murdered warrior in The Story of the Soga was second to none...
Harvey Love, coach of Freshman crew from 1936 to 1942, has returned to Tom Bolies's staff after a four year tour of duty with the Navy and will be available to prepare the Varsity for its first formal season since the beginning of the war, since Freshman crew will not be resumed until next fall...
Plans for the program of the entire weekend of the Harvard Jubilee, April 26 to 27, were released last night by Buel S. Smith '49, chairman of the Class Committee. Two new points emerged in his statement; the Union will be used for the formal dance Saturday night, and a "gala revue" is in preparation for the Friday evening festivities...