Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theatre Workshop, whose main purpose was to present, on a budget of between $10 and $25 each, live productions of plays written by students. For the first time in many years, the student playwright was accorded formal recognition, encouragement, and an outlet through which he could obtain, as Archibald MacLeish has said, the necessary experience of feeling "the blush of shame" that comes when he sees his own work produced. The Workshop has continued right up to the present and has fulfilled its mission admirably; of the 33 student plays produced since the War, 26 were given since the founding...
Sarbanes did not say whether he favored written pledges or simply verbal promises of non-discrimination from landlords. But he did assert that the Housing Registry "should aim at getting a stronger commitment from landlords in order to obtain listing...
Thus resolved, the young teacher set out for the University--in this case Harvard--to obtain his masters: a one-year-plan which burgeoned, kept him in Cambridge for five of the past six years, and has brought him here today. After getting his masters it seemed logical to remain and study for his orals, "then write a thesis while teaching at Exeter--lots of people do this." Then, when offered a teaching-fellow position and a berth at Leverett House (where he eventually became assistant senior tutor), he stayed and finished his thesis under Oscar Handlin (by this time...
...Arkansas editor who last year believed Little Rock could and should comply with the Supreme Court decision for school desegregation, saw the conflict in a different light last week. "There is no way, for the time being at least," wrote the executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette, "to obtain such compliance...
...deputy chairman, reported that "a whole series of aspects of U.S. higher education did not make a favorable impression on our Soviet students. Payment for the privilege of studying seemed a very peculiar phenomenon to us." Tuition costs "of $150 to $450 a semester" make higher education hard to obtain for "children of workers and peasants...