Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inject a religious element into the organization. And with PBH's hymn-singing days far behind, such an element would be undesirable because Brooks House's function is now to offer opportunities for social service along secular lines. Heading this institution with sectarians might well frighten off undergraduates who prefer to eschew organized religion in their extracurricular activities. Further, a divinity school Secretary will probably have trouble convincing parochial settlements that Brooks House workers will keep their gospel social...
...more relaxed and his desk is neater-it is arranged in well-defined piles, not in the huge, disorderly mounds of the opposition days. Said Capehart last week: "I'm by nature an optimist; I like to do constructive things, to produce things . . . I'd much prefer to sell something than be against...
White spends about half of each year preparing next year's circus. Betweentimes he spreads himself on Broadway, has designed the costumes for such hit musicals as Oklahoma!, Carousel, High Button Shoes, Bloomer Girl, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hazel Flagg. For this year's circus. White went full-out on four huge production numbers: an aerial ballet featuring 60 girls suspended in mid-air playing Indian Love Call on little glockenspiels, a horsy period piece called "Derby Day Honeymoon," a red, white & blue finale with the expansive title, "Americana, U.S.A.," and the main spectacle-"Candy Land" (see sketches...
...week long the negotiators in the little wood-and-matting house at Panmunjom disputed over what is a neutral nation. Sweden or Switzerland would not do. said the Communists, and seemed to prefer an Asian nation. Fine, said the U.N.: how about Pakistan? The Communists promised to think about it. But above all this haggling, one point was rising clear: to reach an armistice, one side is going to have to surrender its fundamental position on prisoner repatriation...
...Negro can never be sure: he is in a constant guerrilla war, always half-expecting to be snubbed by this desk clerk or that headwaiter, or fobbed off with a gentlemen's-agreement type of spiel that all the tables have been reserved, all the rooms taken. Many Negroes prefer not to risk being embarrassed, stay away from predominantly white places. On trips, many prefer to drive all night, rather than take the chance of being turned down by a hotel...