Word: graveyard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said the hour has arrived for an answer to the question: "Shall Berlin be remembered as the deathbed of democracy--or as the graveyard of aggression...
Because "changing a curriculum is like moving a graveyard," as McCune put it, the Committee early decided to make a fresh start with The New College Plan, rather than attempting to introduce any "major departures" in the sponsoring institutions. But New College, as President Cole remarked, is expected to suggest important changes at the Four Colleges...
...nearly 50 years, during which most of his country and the world became a graveyard, the poet continued to write-and one of the things that shaped his vision was the contrast between the graves and his youth's calm summer landscape, the eternal tension between life and death. In Doctor Zhivago, one of this century's remarkable novels, Boris Pasternak carried that theme to its climax. With this embattled book he restored to the world the image of what Russia has long been, despite violence, madness and corruption -a preacher to the nations on the text...
...deceptive of all for Thach's sound detectives are the pings, for all the world like those from submarines, that bounce off sunken wrecks. And for precisely that reason, the wise enemy submariner would be most likely to launch his attack from the area of Cape Hatteras, historic graveyard for ships...
Before opening night, this sort of plot was regarded by Broadway wiseacres as something that belongs in the theatrical graveyard. But when the opening-night curtain fell, most critics were ecstatic. "Marvelous," said the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson. "If Mark Twain could have collaborated with Vachel Lindsay, they might have devised a rhythmic lark like The Music Man, which is as American as apple pie and a Fourth of July oration." Cheered the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "The brightest, breeziest, most winning new musical to come along since My Fair Lady enchanted...