Word: performance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although President Eisenhower seems unprepared to admit it, John Foster Dulles is no longer able to perform his duties as Secretary of State. His personal tragedy deserves the utmost sympathy. But the treatment required to check his illness is lengthy and not guaranteed to return the Secretary to his job on a full-time basis...
...Classical Club will perform Aristophanes' The Clouds April 10 and 11, in the courtyard of the Fogg Museum...
...month fight against the gremlins that unaccountably popped its umbilical cord and played other tricks on five previous countdowns. Since two previous firing fizzles took place on the launching pad, the crewmen could even boast-and did-that theirs was the first long-range U.S. missile to perform perfectly on first launch...
...flesh, Boganda became a Roman Catholic priest, was unfrocked after he went to Paris as a Deputy and married his French secretary. A prosperous coffee planter and shrewd politician who likes to spout Latin phrases, he once gained enormous prestige by announcing just before an eclipse that he would perform the miracle of blotting out the sun. His dream is of a "United States of Latin Africa" embracing all of French Equatorial Africa, as well as parts of Portuguese Angola and the Belgian Congo. Of Africa's present boundaries, he says: "We are not responsible for the mistakes...
...quickest way in which I can convey a sense of what is lacking in the clubs is to ask you to perform the following imaginative feat.... Suppose that Club A announced for Tuesday evening a faculty-student discussion of American policy toward Red China; that club B announced for Wednesday evening a musical recital; that Club C announced for Friday night a panel discussion of the university's admission policy. . . . If you will simply suppose all this you will see at once the main thing which in my opinion is now lacking on Prospect Street. . . . In general the undergraduates' attitude...