Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handed to him at a recent Cabinet meeting by Administration Department heads. Said he, flatly: "I don't accept this." Last week, following up his refusal, he issued a memorandum ordering all department and agency heads to stay strictly within the budget limits set by tightfisted, hard-minded Budget Director Maurice Stans. The President, who meant to work at enforcing his order, had set himself to one of the toughest jobs of his White House life: a no-holds-barred effort to present to the 86th Congress a balanced budget after a crisis-ridden year in which...
...Dartmouth and Brown will be greatly improved this winter," Weiland predicts. "And Yale, with their fancy new rink, will be hard to beat." All in all, the Ivy race will be tight, probably the tightest it has ever been--and the Crimson may be shut out of the leadership...
Time, then, will be the important factor before attempting any judgment of this year's varsity. Unproven sophomores, some glaring weaknesses, a strong Ivy League: all these factors render the future of varsity hockey, '58-'59 style, very hard to predict...
...illusion is the theme of his play. This explains why the characters keep dressing up in all sorts of funny costumes and superimposing various new identities on the one with which they started; why real characters keep getting mistaken for ghosts, and vice-versa; and why it is sometimes hard to determine where anybody is at. Evidently Mr. Moss has an eye toward being some sort of mellow Pirandello, but though he uses all the standard reality-illusion devices, it is hard to tell what he is trying to do with them. It is not enough for a playwright merely...
...getting their hands on some of her money.) But Mr. Moss has little of interest to say about money, unless it be that money is very important to people, and that they talk about it a lot. Because the play's themes are announced so carefully, it is hard not to feel short-changed at the realization that The Folding Green makes no more meaningful a statement than the merest commercial laff-riot--especially since a laff-riot...