Word: orientating
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Kobayashi has also staged a musical version of Hamlet and an adaptation of Carmen. His production of Turandot, Puccini's Italianate tragedy of the Orient, became a vehicle for a truckin' chorus...
...significant that there are still places in the Orient with a standard of living far lower than that in any Western city where it is safer to walk than in New York City. My opinion is that religion (and the East is religious, whether we agree with it or not) prevents the production of the enrage-the man who has no place anywhere, and hates society "on principle." And so hates this world...
Half a year from retirement, David may feel justly proud of his contributions to the Business School's national leadership. His foresight during World War II helped the faculty to re-orient the curriculum to post-war business conditions. His insistence that the school maintain close ties with industry aided his campaign for twenty million dollars to build endowment and research funds. And his wide friendships with leaders in government and business have encouraged industry to accept the new doctrines developed at Harvard...
...having some difficulty in deciding exactly what to present," said Harlow Shapley, Payne Professor of Practical Astronomy. Shapley has consented to telecast a condensed version of his popular Cosmography course at the request of the California Academy of Science. His class "attempts to orient man in a complex Universe...
Collins' forthright declaration at once set off characteristic trepidations in Saigon, Paris and Washington. Saigon's Journal d'Extrème Orient tartly reminded Collins that "the French government will not accept the least disposition to contradict the Geneva agreements." But Collins was not intending to violate Geneva: the U.S. had only 340 men in Indo-China, and these would operate the new training program with officers and noncoms from the 150,000-man French Expeditionary Corps; there would be no military buildup from outside...