Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here is Greek tragedy as it should be done, like neither a Shakespearian character study and display of verbal pyrotechnics, nor a contemporary inquest into the septic souls of one's nerve-wracked next-door neighbors. To meet with Oedipus Rex on its own grounds, you approach it like neither Hamlet nor Death of a Salesman, but rather as if it were a Solemn High Mass. It reminds us that the "play" was originally a religious ritual, after all, even if this is a spirit our own age has successfully recaptured on the stage only in Eliot's Murder...
...Soviet refugees say that high-altitude U.S. photo-reconnaissance planes flying in from the West made a nighttime penetration of Russian airspace in late 1956 or early 1957. MIG-17s from the Moscow air defense district scrambled to meet them, could not get up to their altitude (above 50,000 ft.). The commander of the Moscow air defense zone is reported to have been fired after this episode...
...describing the rebels were the sort that no Premier before him had dared to utter. Most of them, he said, had fought "courageously," and he offered them "the peace of the brave" (see box). But he was only willing to discuss a cease-fire with the F.L.N., not to meet their demands for independence. Only by peaceful evolution could the "courageous personality of Algeria" come to exist...
...plan to cover civil air regulations, meteorology, navigation, flight safety, and general servicing," he added. The course will meet three nights a month through April, providing about 38 hours of instruction...
...questions. . . . One cannot help but wonder now whether its fine victory against Dartmouth the previous week was not just a flash-in-the-pan. Furthermore, it is hard to escape the conclusion the varsity may have some bad moments against the three Ivy opponents which it still has to meet...