Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nothing. What should the U.S. do next? The nation's U.N. allies were taken by the fear that tough countermoves in Asia might plunge them all into World War III. The Administration itself took no decisive action: its position was that it could not move until U.N. gave the word. So the U.S. stood with one hand behind its back, waging a war that wasn't a war against an enemy who was not quite an enemy, who was inviolate as long as he stood north of the Yalu River...
Actually, by the time the Shah got his set, there were already hundreds of lords & masters of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (including George III and George Washington*), and since then, hundreds of thousands more have been added. Sets have found their way into cottages and castles, to Little America with Admiral Byrd, to Labrador with Sir Wilfred Grenfell, to homes, schools and libraries all over the world. In its 182 years, "EB" has become almost a synonym for knowledge, a roving storehouse of facts that anyone can go to, and that can speak with authority on almost any subject, from...
...Wells Ballet did not contain much true ballet. "The Rake's Progress" is more a mimeo-drama than a ballet; and "Dante Sonata" contains a great many elements of modern interpretive dancing. The remaining two selections were the lightweight "Les Patineurs," and the brief pas de deux from Act III of "Sleeping Beauty," which was hardly more than a glimpse...
Finishing its business for the year, the retiring council made three more appointments: George W. Miller, III '52 of Dunster House, and Robert H. Cole '52 of Lowell House, and Robert H. Cole '52 of Kirkland House...
...brief Act III pas de deux from "Sleeping Beauty," the true meaning of Sadler's Wells' fame crystalized. The undisputed pinnacle of the evening was Moira Shearer. In this, the only pure classical part of the program, her magnificent body control, intense yet delicate, was completely over-whelming...