Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous British zany since Sir Harry Lauder. Alec was not quite sure he liked it. Like most British actors, he looked on cinema as a lower art form.* Besides, he fancied himself rather as a tragedian than as a funnyface. But there it was. And when his cold, existential, matter-of-fact Hamlet ("He was acute and intelligent, but flow of soul he lacked") flopped in the West End the next year, that tied the ribbon on it. Alec went to work in earnest for the movies...
...jobless checkup, the Census Bureau does not try to find out how many of the jobless are such new workers, how many actually lost their jobs. The census takers only ask: "Are you looking for work?" And everyone who is "looking for work," no matter how lackadaisically, is counted as a member of the labor force. Thus, as the size of the labor force increases, the number of jobless can also increase, as happened last month, even when the number of employed takes a big jump. Economists would like the Census Bureau to add more questions to separate the laid...
Memorial Church policy in this matter is the creation of the corporation. In disposing of several appeals, the last in 1949, it has clearly restricted the use of the church, and Dr. Buttrick has merely executed its will. Thus it rests squarely upon the Corporation to redefine ceremonial policy...
...first definite official action of the present discussion over the use of Memorial Church may arise from the Corporation meeting this morning, informed sources indicated yesterday, as the chances increased that the Fellows would probably appoint a committee specifically to study the matter. The naming of a Faculty committee has reportedly been urged upon President Pusey by a high member of the University...
Another statement on the matter in a distinctly different vein, was made yesterday morning by the Rev. Joseph Barth, minister of King's Chapel, a Unitarian church in Boston attended by many influential friends of the University. Barth, speaking on the Biblical sentence, "There shall be one fold and one shepherd," called upon Memorial Church "to welcome differences into itself... in the method of a covenant among the differing with all to use the chapel in freedom...