Word: narrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memory endures in menus, viands and appetites the world over. A greeter, Oscar in his white chef's cap stood figuratively astride the gourmet banquet table like some culinary colossus, a familiar and beloved figure to trenchermen of his day. No such adulation has fallen on the narrow Gallic shoulders of Oscar's successor, Claudius Charles Philippe, 47. Son of a French chef, London-born Philippe migrated to the U.S. in 1929, stirred soup in a variety of kitchen pots, even sold Fuller brushes for a spell before going to the Waldorf as Oscar's assistant...
Belgium. Highlights of the four-day trip: a narrow escape from being clobbered by a Fiat on the slippery cobblestones of Bruges, a state dinner with scholarly young (28) King Baudouin at the Royal Hunting Lodge, a fast-paced peek at the Brussels Fair, where she peered gingerly through fixed wall binoculars at the stage of the British Pavilion's theater...
...primary objection to concentration in theater is that it is direct and overt training for a profession, exactly analogous in this respect to a major in journalism or physical education. Harvard has never encouraged narrow preparation for law or medicine and it should not do so for the stage. Mr. Titcomb argues that theater, in embracing many arts, conforms to the spirit of General Education. It seems to me, on the contrary, that the theater is a hierarchy and combine of specialties whose interrelations are strictly pragmatic, designed for efficiency in production, not for artistic cross-fertilization. Furthermore, the theater...
Israelites on the Plain. In the land of the Bible, diggers probed into ruins and legends that were old when Britons did not exist and Romans were savages. On the narrow coastal plain of southern Israel stands a rounded mound 100 ft. high covering 50 acres. It is a "tell," a heap of debris, hiding the remains of an ancient city. Israel is lumpy with tells, but this one is more famous than most because Archaeologist William F. Albright...
...weeks of the year, Henley slumbers peacefully. Although the Sunday traffic from Slough can be heavy crossing the narrow bridge which leads over the Thames, little else disturbs the town until the first week in July comes. Then this litle country town is transformed into a semi-city; amusement parks, crowds, grandstands, and the BBC descend and line the banks of the river...