Word: processional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"There will be no need to prepare anything," he told Mankiewicz. "Just come with your cameras and film our annual procession." Last week, trailed by a motorcade bearing some 50 technicians and actors, all well-armed with pith helmets, salt tablets and quinine pills, Mankiewicz journeyed to Tayninh. Meanwhile, prompted...
Nobel Bargain. Through the center, the various colleges and universities have been able to import a procession of visiting lecturers that any Ivy Leaguer might envy. The visitors have included everyone from Julian Huxley and Bertrand Russell to Nobel Prizewinner Otto Loewi of New York University and Buu-Hoi of...
Every year on the Monday of Commencement Week, a select group of men in academic robes assembles outside of Harvard Hall and, led by a fife and drum corps, proceed to march across the Yard and into Sanders Theatre. If this group is smaller or less imposing than the main...
Into Boston's Gardner Auditorium last week marched an oddly assorted procession of scientists, politicians and dogs. The occasion: a legislative committee hearing on a bill to make stray animals, unclaimed after 20 days in the pound, available to medical-research laboratories. For Massachusetts, though boasting in the Boston...
Sometimes, in pressing U.S. allies to join in solutions, he pressed too hard. In 1953 he threatened an "agonizing reappraisal" of U.S. policy for Western Europe if Europe failed to adopt the over-simplified European Defense Community. (Later he retreated gratefully to Anthony Eden's compromise Western European Union...