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...Hasty Pudding did not invent the concept of men dressed as women on stage. Find out who did. "Two Centuries of Performing Ancient Greek Drama: Heritage and Innovation on the Greek Stage," a lecture by Platon Mavromoustakos, University of Athens. Barker Center, Room 024. 4:15 p.m. FREE...
...decision to transfer was a difficult one at first Calvert says. As a sophomore, she had already been named a platon sergeant, and some of the Academy's officers encouraged her to stay...
...comes from the spectacle of a simple man, laboring and suffering with naive good humor, and all for nothing. For Russian readers this agony is redoubled. Russians have always loved innocents in literature, and the carpenter Ivan is a peasant innocent in direct descent from Tolstoy's Platon Karataev in War and Peace. His meekness is in jarring contrast to the degradation of the camp?where an extra bowl of mush makes a day "almost happy," and where your most important possessions are your felt boots, a spoon you made from aluminum wire, a needle and thread hidden in your...
...which had held up its own deliberations until the President had finished his speech. The Russians, who missed the last major debate on Korea in 1950 because they were boycotting the Security Council, were on hand this time to take the role of Pyongyang's advocate. Soviet Delegate Platon D. Morozov immediately moved to strike the issue from the agenda, won support only from Hungary and Algeria and was voted down, 12 to 3. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg then called on the council to "act with the greatest urgency" lest the U.S. be forced to seek "other courses which...
...Mongi Slim took the floor to appeal desperately for U.S. support. But as a friend of both Tunisia and France, the U.S. could not afford to take sides. Instead, Tunisia got the stifling verbal embrace of the Soviet Union. Sounding trumpet calls against "Western imperialism," Russian Delegate Platon Morozov soon left Tunisia and its problems far behind. With a rattling of nuclear rockets, Morozov threatened instant erasure to those countries that continue to permit the establishment of U.S., British and French bases...