Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly ranks among the most popular. His Alleluia, written in 1940, and The Last Words of David (1949) have together sold about two million copies. Thompson's fame is not limited to America; his works are performed all over the world. He has just been asked by a group in Seoul if they may substitute the names of Korean holidays for the corresponding American dates in his Testament of Freedom when they perform it later this year. And Thompson is being asked for new works all the time. His future plans include two more choral compositions, one commissioned...
...group announced several days ago that the company would close after Saturday night's performance of The Power and the Glory, but since that time their office has been "besieged with calls" asking the company to go on and "pledging support...
...attempt is unsuccessful, the group has enough funds available to make refunds on all advance ticket sales and on season tickets. Contributions will be tax-deductible, subject to government approval, and should be mailed to the Wilbur Theatre, Tremont St., Boston...
...service to that of irresponsible, self-centered action. Yet I wonder whether this reasoning was not carried too far and applied too broadly. To say that the responsible representative is a rare bird takes too little account, I think, of several important factors: First, there is no single group of "representatives;" a student who leads in one activity follows in most of the rest, and so never loses the sense of membership in the community. Secondly, and more important, the article takes too little account of the quiet but no less vital work of conscientious students...
...chances for official Army approval of this new plan are almost nil, improvements are still evident. Army ROTC has two civilian courses now. The Air Force unit this year adopted a radical innovation, completely doing away with all freshman Air Science courses. Even the isolated Navy is instituting a group psychology course for next year's sophomores. With ROTC now confronted by threatened obsolescence, the beginnings of a sensible re-evaluation of its basic foundations are both welcome and necessary...