Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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STRATEGY Second Flop The second phase of the big Chinese spring offensive was as much of a bloody failure as the first...
...practiced, and survived, several sorts of poetry, and in each phase he was first-rate. His fame gathered and hung above him during his own lifetime. Ireland, which is not always proud of its writers, was proud of him. Eire made him a Senator. He was the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize. When, in 1940, Poet T. S. Eliot delivered the First Annual Yeats Lecture in Dublin's Abbey Theater, he called Yeats "the greatest poet of our time-certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language...
...Fleet: "I won't get in your hair, Van." But Van Fleet is carrying on Ridgway's strategy-to save the maximum allied lives by maneuver, to kill the maximum enemy troops by massed firepower. Last week, in the lull that followed the abortive and costly first phase of the enemy offensive, he told his troops that they had won a "great victory." But he warned them that the Communists could still strike another hard blow...
...Jersey bought one of the mechanical planetariums from a Philadelphia clockmaker and installed it in Nassau Hall. When it worked, students of "Natural Philosophy" watched planets on long arms circle about a 4 ft. universe. The sun and moon moved in their appointed orbits; hands pointed to the proper phase of the zodiac marked on a brass ring that encircled the painted, deep-blue sky. Near the top, an inset dial indicated the day, the year and the hour. To Scottish-born John Witherspoon, Presbyterian theologian and sixth president of the college, the ornate mechanism both illustrated the majesty...
Happily for the audience, the low comedy scenes are far and away the most successful phase of the current production. In this play they are more than a mere concession to the groundlings; they are the height of Shakespeare's achievement in slapstick comedy. There is much room left for comic interpretation, and the H. D. C. makes the most of its freedom. At least the Pit at Fogg Court thought...