Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supporters of a referendum claimed that last year's action had set a precedent and that "we owe the students a referendum." Eugene H. Zagat '61 also stressed the need for arousing student interest by means of a College-wide vote...
...convention, held annually at various American universities, is jointly financed by the Associated International Relations Clubs and the Foreign Policy Association, a non-profit organization to encourage wider interest in foreign affairs...
...bigger dent in the U.S. market, were in the fold. Weiner & Gossage started an Irish campaign that featured ads ending in midsentence, sniffed at the Brazilian coffee bean (because Irish coffee obscured the burnished flavor of Irish whiskey), extolled St. Patrick's Day in Mexico City. In the interest of scientific experiment ("Irish whiskey research in nature's laboratory"), Gossage dreamed up the Irish Geophysical Year, to be held in McMurdo Sound...
...second part of The Glass Menagerie a Gentleman Caller finally enters the Wingfield home in a St. Louis slum, after half an evening of preparation for him, and is left alone with the crippled, morbidly shy young girl he had been invited there to meet. Trying to interest him in the collection of little glass animals that is her only solace, she offers him her favorite, saying, "Here's an example of one, if you care to see it." In the current H.D.C. production, she takes at this moment a quick, frightened, intensely poignant glance...
These non-realistic devices are the key to the success of a play that in the reading registers as an honestly told but unexciting story about ordinary people. They more than compensate for the slight drop in interest during part of the first act, and for the scattered signs of the pseudo-lyricism and pretentiousness that are so annoying in some of Mr. Williams' later plays. It is a rare experience for me to come out of a theatre changed, deeply respectful of the total effort I came to see and of all those who created it. If my gratitude...