Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effects of this unfortunate decision are myriad: Prime Minister Henrik F. Verwoerd, a symbol of white racism, has enjoyed perhaps the most dramatic international victory in legal history. Never before in modern times has the practice of avowed racist policies met with world opinion and triumphed; Verwoerd has brought a brief ray of hope into the foundering creed of segregrationists the world over...
Guillaume Apollinaire's The Breasts of Tiresias is a strange play, and at the Loeb it has been given a strange production. Or maybe disorganized is more like it. With myriad props and set-pieces to work with, the cast has something of a field-day, but for all their running around they give more of a reading than a performance...
...FAIR LADY (Philips). The original-cast recording of the Berlin production is the best of the myriad foreign Lady recordings. The playing of Fritz Loewe's score puts new emphasis on his Viennese origins, and the German lyrics stay so close to the all-too-familiar English ones that the listener can understand them. It's straight down der Strasse wo du lebst...
...relaxed and lazy vacation, the 26 students who signed on for summer jobs at the St. Petersburg Times soon got a new slant on the months ahead. Not for them the nearby beaches; not for them such time-killing chores as toting copy, answering phones or writing the myriad obits that the retirement haven inevitably requires. On his first day, Marc Rosenbaum, a Colgate freshman-to-be, found himself on the rewrite desk. "I'm not even sure what I'm doing," he gasped as the deadline rushed up. But he did fine. And so did the others...
...There are, to be sure, a few exceptions, notably The New Yorker's Robert Shaplen, 49, the Saigon correspondent most universally respected by both his colleagues and Washington observers. Close behind him in both respect and expertise is the Reporter's Warner. Both have painstakingly documented the myriad activities of Thich Tri Quang as he moves above and below the surface to extend his influence...