Word: post-war
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...Ticket Manager Frank O. Lunden, who said that he was surprised that B.C. outdrew the varsity in the area, estimated that the 1960 home attendance was slightly better than the post-war average...
Khrushchev's table-thumping performance at the United Nations is evidence of this return to post-war Stalinism and the rigid division of East and West into two absolutely opposed camps, he claimed. Moscow's inability to do anything but tone down the "obvious crudities" of Chinese policy in the Manifesto is proof that Mao Tse-Tung can intervene successfully in Russia's internal affairs...
...cheap, fast places of habitation (one can't really dignify these apiary cells with the terms "room" or "apartment"); the University administrators have been crying for years that such a need exists--that at the very least, the number of students admitted to the University must remain at a post-war high level (no one that I know of has ever seriously proposed reducing the size of the University to pre-war capacity). Mr. Harris tells us now that the college has reduced its overcrowding to only twenty-odd per cent over capacity, the time has come to expand...
Thus, as the current season started, the over-all total of productions since the War--student-written or otherwise--stood at the impressive figure of 426. For those interested in such things as the millionth car to go through the Holland Tunnel, the 400th post-War production turned out to be the Hasty Pudding show, Run for the Money...
...masque Cupid and Death. Both are works of high quality readily stageable and technically rather easy--well within the grasp of student performers. Yet the participants adopted so cavalier and irresponsible an attitude toward preparation that the result was an insult to the audience and, uniquely in Harvard's post-War theatrical history, managed to achieve total disaster. When, near the masque's end, the principals were poised in the balcony arches above the Fogg Court, one felt a nearly unconquerable desire to yell, "Jump...