Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club's immediate program must be maintained and strengthened using present facilities," Henning asserted, "although any long range program must naturally take the new theatre into account...
...statement last night, Farbman explained that he felt "the records of the present administration and of the administration's candidate leave a great deal to be desired." The former situation, with only one presidential candidate, presupposed a unanimity which in fact did not exist within the club, be said...
More than token measures must be taken to decrease the gap which exists between Quincy as planned and the Houses as they are. Otherwise the present Houses will face a permanent disadvantage in recruiting freshmen, and students living in them in the future will be victims of a gross and unnecessary inequality. More than a little money should be forthcoming in the very near future to finance physical improvements in all the existing Houses...
Staged by Michael Murray, the production has clarity and pace and a disarming respect for O'Casey. Yet the actors, particularly John Heffernan in the role of the poet, seem more eager to present a "compelling" characterization than to act out their parts in harmony. Heffernan emerges as a quavering neurotic that would puzzle O'Casey, and Edward Zang, in the role of a drunken neighbor, exhibits the mannerisms of a Shubert Alley reprobate, an actor who seems to play actor on stage. Edward Finnegan's comic skill, in the role of an aging and only occasionally outer-directed apartment...
...avoid this argument, the Administration has urged vague claims of "national security" requiring the operation of the Philadelphia contractor. Since the war, this firm has been awarded contracts in England totalling over twelve times the value of the present one, all of which have been in areas affecting the "national security" of Great Britain. To discourage British trade is to invite retaliation, which would reduce the business of the very American company whose continued operation is the alleged goal of the present contract. Critics also point out that earlier the Administration said the dam was not worth constructing...