Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prior to the dedication and opening performance, local citizens prominent in the arts, business and industry attended a formal dinner at the Museum of Science. They then proceeded by boats up the Charles River to a specially constructed dock near the new theatre. During the 35-minute ride, expensive cigars, small bottles of brandy, and coffee were distributed. On disembarkation the riders were met by bright lights and a barrage of television cameras. And during the first intermission of Twelfth Night, a fireworks display was set off over the River...
...eleven days behind; and the actors had not yet even tested the stage. Failure seemed assured. At 7:30 p.m. on July 9 steamrollers were still operating and workmen were still driving stakes. But at eight o'clock the Governor and other prominent citizens arrived by boat for the formal ribbon-cutting dedication of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center. And a half hour later, the Theatre lights went down and the Cambridge Drama Festival's inaugural performance got under way right on time...
...Warren, according to the Tribune, to David Maxwell, then president of the A.B.A.: "If you let that fellow in, count me out." The A.B.A. board of governors studied the unusual situation, decided not to issue the invitation to the Vice President because it had already invited and had the formal acceptance of Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States...
...June (65%) get another chance in September; those who fail then (80%) stay at school another year. Notable first-round failures: Anatole France, Alphonse Daudet, Andre Gide, Franchise Sagan. Though some brave bachot bumblers repeat the year as many as six times, others (like Gide) bid adieu to formal education forever. One result: only 409 French youths per 100,000 population attend college, as compared to 1,950 in the U.S.-an alarming statistic in a classical-bent France yearning for scientific and technological power...
...card, lapsed into corruption, inefficiency and apathy. Now for the first time there is a real opposition stirring, led by one of India's grand old men and only Governor General, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (familiarly known as "C.R."), who is a frisky 80. Pointing out that Nehru's formal opposition comes only from the feeble Socialists and the malevolent Communists, C.R. last month founded a conservative political party known as the Freedom Party. Among its supporters: anti-Nehru Bombay Businessman Raja Hutheesingh, who is married to Nehru's younger sister, Krishna...