Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like others caught in the middle, Lyuh did a lot of shilly-shallying. His enemies called him "The Silver Ax"-he looked fine, but he would not cut. He thought Korea could be unified without violence, "unless we let the extreme rights and lefts play...
...Blanchard & Glenn Davis, the touchdown twins, doing time on the Great Rock Candy Pile, where they are making a movie for Paramount, had one of those prison-type pictures made. They will soon have to give up sweets, though, to play with the Eastern College All-Stars against the professional New York Giants...
Visitors, on entering, found themselves dodging a whirling lighthouse powered by an old Victrola motor. They moved on to a "Hall of Superstition," containing a 14-foot hand made of chicken wire, plaster and canvas. In a hole in the wall, an owl, a bat and a raven played whist. In another room, artificial rain fell steadily and one dry corner was reserved for a billiard table where passersby could stop and play...
...free to act, but he must act to be free," is Sartre's rallying cry. Sartre himself played an active role in the French underground after his release from a German prison camp. His play, Les Mouches (The Flies), produced during the occupation, was an eloquent plea for freedom cloaked in a classic Greek legend. Sartre also found time to write a 700-page theoretical treatise, L'Etre et le Néant (Being and Nothingness...
...guide people in evaluating political ideas and politicians, a project which might have been useful in Louisiana a decade ago. Stoke favors no political party ("Temperamentally I'm bent to be against the party in power"), and no pat educational theory ("Both John Dewey and Robert Hutchins can play on my team"). But by the time L.S.U.'s Board of Supervisors picked him from 144 candidates, they knew what his terms would be. He had made it clear that he wanted "full authority to administer the affairs of the university without political or other interference." The supervisors said...