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...cohesive body. They have not, if you like, a class consciousness. And so for the Student Council report to say "The National Student Association is premised on the assumption that the American student community, in pursuing a common aim of knowledge, can work together as a group. . ." is to invent fiction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Case Against NSA | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...moment later, when asked if he wanted the lights turned up as he worked to invent a new war weapon, speaks the great curtain line for the first act: "No. Give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Heartbreak House | 10/1/1959 | See Source »

...Naturally, all this extra singing and dancing will take up a lot of time. And I do want the show to be entertaining above all, so I'd better play up the farcical opportunities and invent a lot of by-play. Still, I only have two hours and a half. Well, I'll do a little pruning here and there in the text; and I guess I'll just have to omit the whole taunting of Malvolio in prison, though I realize it's the climax of the entire anti-Malvolio plotting. This does mean I'm upsetting Shakespeare...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Twelfth Night | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

Emphasizing that "we are not in our present position by accident," Kissinger proceeded to examine the characteristics of American foreign policy. He insisted that the United States places its hopes in diplomats who can "invent clever solutions to solve crises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kissinger Hits Foreign Policy | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Slim, attractive, fortyish Denise Duval, who once sang (fully clothed) at the Folies-Bergere, repeated the triumph she scored in the opera's debut early this month in Paris. Says Singer Duval: "This is a true role. I don't have to invent attitudes. It's happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Telephone Opera | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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