Word: informals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three times the President of the Council announced at the opening of debate that no comments should be covered by the CRIMSON or the Radcliffe News. On the club merger discussions, dormitory representatives were specifically instructed not to inform their constituents about the discussion. The Council was not asked to vote on the decision to close the meeting (Ordinarily, Radcliffe Council meetings are open to the public and the press, and representatives are expected to return to their dorms with a report of the meeting...
Perhaps the most heartening item in the President's speech was his recognition of the problem of deficient scientific education. If Americans, despite the President's apparent unwillingness to inform them, sense the need for a concentrated national effort, their concern will find expression in public school emphasis on science and technology. And our hopes of overtaking the Russians ultimately rest on confidence in our ability to match their numerical production of scientists with enough better...
...impact of real-life truthfulness Compulsion does have, often very impressively. It recapitulates just what happened, and how, and why; it impales conscious and unconscious, willing and unwilling behavior. There are dozens of moments in the play with a power to inform, or shock, or dismay, that wholly shrivel mere theatrical make-believe; and as Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation...
...government accepted an offer of arms from Egypt's Nasser, even though Bourguiba himself has long resented Nasser's internal intriguing in French North Africa on behalf of Cairo-centered Arab nationalism. Within three days of taking Nasser's arms, President Bourguiba was able to inform his people that the U.S. had decided to help Tunisia get arms. They would be "Western arms, whether from Italy or elsewhere," he said, and they would arrive by October...
...spring of 1956, Producer-Scriptwriter-Lyricist-Narrator-Hero Thomas hastens to inform the audience, he was appointed a special U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, for the coronation of the King of Nepal, by the President of the U.S. And in the interest of art-not to mention the financial interests of the Cinerama people, whose first three productions have already grossed $60 million-he decided to take the Cinerama audience along to see "the glowing fantasy of Asia." Those who accept his invitation will not actually see "the mythical Shangri-La" that Commentator Thomas leads them to expect, but they will...