Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Wilfred McNeil, 58, burdened with the problem of supporting the five children (all under eight years old) of his Navy flyer son, who was killed recently in a carrier crash (another son is an Air Force B-52 pilot), turned in his resignation. Then he announced that in November he will become president of Grace Line...
...written down as a commendable success, far in excess of what could legitimately have been expected in such a short time and under such unpredictable circumstances. William Morris Hunt '36, the C.D.F.'s Executive Producer, has announced that 80,000 persons attended the summer's offerings. The major remaining problem for the new Theatre is its acoustics. During the summer several amplification arrangements were tried; the one used for Much Ado, the sole proscenium production, turned out to be the best. But the acoustics are still not wholly satisfactory; perhaps the solution demands a concave roof and solid, airtight walls...
...Burnt Flower-Bed, written in 1952 by the late Italian dramatist Ugo Betti. Betti has been hailed as a greater playwright than Pirandello; he is certainly not that, but he does deserve a place among the most important modern writers for the theatre. This play deals with the problem of present-day nihilism and international political diplomacy. If it did not lapse periodically into propagandistic sermonizing, it would be a masterpiece...
...this merely happened to be a nondescript question that struck his fancy. Instead of being made more complacent by Hume and Freud, he needs to be jarred by Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, Pascal and Dostoyevski, into the realization that the religious question is the question of questions, that the problem of God is not whether an entity exists or does not exist--about which a cautious skepticism might make sense--but whether the spiritual dynamo of an entire civilization is still running or not, whether the ancient foundation of an entire moral system has been eroded away, whether an awesome Person...
...unusual attractiveness of the Freshman Seminar Program has created a somewhat paradoxical problem of the Advanced Standing Office. "We don't want freshmen to start off their careers at Harvard with a rejection," Wilcox emphasized. "We want to show them that there are a lot of things to do in freshman year, and we're sorry if their newness led them to believe that the ordinary four and a half course program is not stimulating enough...