Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention was made of what would happen to the 30,000 Red army soldiers that Moscow keeps in Hungary on the excuse that they guard the supply route to its occupation forces in Austria. But few doubted that Russian soldiers would still be there, under some pretext or other, come freedom for Austria...
...resign "may be a bit premature," said a State Department official carefully. Returning from Saigon to report to Dwight Eisenhower, the President's special envoy, General J. Lawton Collins, would only say that "We are behind the legal government of Viet Nam," and he didn't mention Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. The French government, wise in such subtleties of omission, concluded that General Collins had perhaps given way to them, and was recommending Diem's replacement...
...settings were unusual, even for the College, where good sets have been the rule in most productions. Leslie Van Zandt's costumes also added to the general aura of professional quality. General Manager Thomas Merriam, Stage Manager Ricardo de la Espiriella, and Technical Director Donald Tashjian all deserve mention as well. Hard work had clearly gone into the production, combined with the genuine talents mentioned above...
...most people the mention of Finnegans Wake suggests a trackless forest of tangled Joycean jargon, huge, ambiguous, largely inexplicable, and hence poorly suited to stage production. But the present Poets' Theatre version proves that quite the opposite is true. Digging out some of the book's principal themes--not all, to be sure--and taking the best advantage of its circular form and the musical quality of Joyce's language, the Poets have arrived at a truly successful adaptation which never fails to be entertaining...
...becomes a little absurd when vague charges are balanced, for example, against the record of 174 Harvard men who are president or directors of the country's hundred largest industrial corporations, the University's eight Nobel prize winners, four senators, twenty-five congressmen, and three governors, to mention only the most prominent. It is then indeed difficult to believe in the 'red' reputation of a university which has been described as the the "last refuge of the Puritan...