Word: momental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly this type of thinking is more valuable and constructive than the hysterical and negativistic brand so widespread at the moment...
...moment, all the plane fights and the round-table concurrences had that curiously unreal air of things desired but not yet accepted as urgent. Yet Dillon's trip, said the Economist, "could just conceivably be the exploratory prelude to the most important development in international economics since General Marshall launched his plan of 1947 on that flood tide in Atlantic affairs that has so spectacularly led on to fortune . . . Now everything suggests that a new tide is racing which could determine whether the decade and a half from 1960 to 1975 will repeat the last 15 years of success...
...added a piece of paternal advice: Be wary of creating an army and thus a troublesome independent political force, as in South America. De Gaulle's package proposal: "Full competence" would be handed over to Sudan and Senegal (for later delegation to the Mali Federation) at the same moment that the two states signed accords keeping them in the Community...
...program's opening the Orchestra showed of what standards it was capable in a brilliant reading of Haydn's superb La Passione, the symphony No.49 in F minor. Never for a moment lacking in inspiration, the symphony is a product of Haydn's thirties, a tempestuous, tragic utterance that ought to give new ideas about this composer to those unfamiliar with his early work. Played with vigor and affecting lyricism, it was the sort of performance Mr. Manusevitch can, and hopefully will give us in the spring concert, which includes a contemporary work and a Handel harp concerto. The Orchestra...
Most college presidents still feel that they cannot give up federal funds for needy students, however much they might wish to follow the Harvard-Yale principle. Ike voiced sympathy: "I rather deplore that universities have found it necessary to find, for the moment, a narrow dividing line and therefore keep a number of citizens out of taking advantage of the loan provisions that the Federal Government set up." But the President also put his full weight behind a possible compromise at the next session of Congress: repeal of the disclaimer affidavit, retention of the oath of allegiance. "For my part...