Word: lights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unspoken Speech. Khrushchev's big jet swept into Los Angeles International Airport 5 hr. 27 min. later, sat down with a bounce. He padded down the bright aluminum ramp, his light-colored suit flapping, looked detached and almost dubious about leaving the plane. Los Angeles Mayor Norris Poulson stepped forward, handed out what was perhaps the briefest official greeting a U.S. city has ever given a visiting chief of state. Said Poulson: "We welcome you to Los Angeles, City of the Angels, the city where the impossible always happens." Khrushchev, who had the text of an arrival speech...
...Kresge Auditorium, the M.I.T. Summer School sponsored Barry Morse in Merely Players, a "one-man theatrical scrapbook." Morse described his show as "a light-hearted look at the actor and his life, his ups and downs, troubles and triumphs--in fact and fiction, in various periods and places." Knowledgeable chatting alternated with solo excerpts.MIKEL LAMBERT '59 and EARLE EDGERTON '56 starred in "The Man Who Came to Dinner...
Under these circumstances, Harvard's introductory course in economics can hardly be considered impartial--it certainly presents the "liberal" position in a favorable light, and tends to downgrade what Galbraith calls the "conventional wisdom." It is not surprising that a third of Harvard's students declare themselves in favor of "reduction of current unemployment by government action, even at the price of aggravating inflation," or that two-thirds support "government wage and price controls to check the inflation"--the second policy presumably helping to balance the first...
...substance of Sabrina is light as the Laninized music that is wafting through it, but Humphrey Bogart is solidly in the middle and his acting is heavy enough to keep the film from floating away...
...real: If the Biblical mythology has crumbled for most of the population, what heroic archetypes are left to summon men to greatness? are there to be no images of human possibility commonly available to men beyond the mediocre range afforded by popular literature and the mass media? If the light of the Godhead has gone out, what is to save us from an everlasting night of spiritual squalor, timidity, and sloth? What remains to command human loyalty and aspiration beyond the interests of one's particular generation and narrow milieu...