Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets, cheerful native servants, and dress-for-dinner luxury in a sun-washed tropical setting. Last week the pastel shops of Nassau's Bay Street were shuttered light at the height of the winter season, the colony's 16 major hotels were closed and empty. In a matter of days all but 24 of some 3,500 tourists fled home by cruise ship and plane. As they cleared out, a company of British troops flew in from Jamaica and a frigate steamed in from Bermuda to stand guard with local police. A militant Negro labor union had frozen...
...Durer, however, the issues become clear without confusing the matter with a French school--German school alternative. Nothing cou'd be more Germanic than these fifteenth century prints. Even if Durer and his contemporaries hadn't the horrors of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Third Reich to motivate them, they found substance for equally dramatic expression in the Apocalypse, the Christ passion, or even in a coat of arms of death...
...gulls lowers, swoops hungrily at the eyes of a comrade Teichmann is trying to save. Exhausted, finally broken by the war, Teichmann slips into madness. Hours later, rescue boats save 9 of the 20 men. Novelist Ott does not say whether Teichmann is one of them. It does not matter...
...final pantomines of the evening belonged to M. Marceau and his classic creation, Bip. "Bip as the Botany Professor," and "Bip as a Lion Tamer" are M. Marceau at his best. For those who could neither find tickets nor, for that matter, afford the prices, M. Marceau opens tomorrow in New York and remains there until February...
Agreeing that "the country may indeed be in grave peril" and that "more attention must be paid . . . to the matter of keeping our sciences strong," Pusey claims that "Harvard has long been deeply committed to this task...