Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fairy ring is perhaps somewhat less successful (and the girls are not helped by an unfortunate etymological process which has added an unlooked for ribaldry to the operetta). Only Celia (Miss Elinor Martin) has the wild-eyed boredom proper to a group of immortals who cannot determine why they bother to trip their completely meaningless measures. And Miss Colleen Ryan, the Queen of the Fairies, despite her attractive contralto voice, lacks the heavy authority of a true monarch...
Considering the great obstacles that face this show at every turn--the small stage, the huge cast, those titanic speeches--Tamburlaine turned out remarkably well. In fact, it is the first play I have seen here that truly deserved the Loeb; instead of receiving a proper theatre, a cast of forty-five had to suffer through eighteen scene changes without a backstage and had to dive through windows on their way to dressing rooms across the court yard...
...visiting Yugoslavian journalist explained to the Dunster House Forum last night. Jaka Stular, managing editor of Tovaris, a weekly magazine roughly equivalent Like, took particular pains to emphasize that Yugoslavia is attempting to institute completely new type of freedom." It is a freedom based on the citizen as a proper rather than as a political unit, in recognition of Marx's emphasis on economics. In opposition to the Russian version of economic development, Yugoslavia "recognizes the basic laws of supply and demand," and feels that a "free economy with competitive units" will lead to progress. The "new order" will strive...
...perfectly proper to talk with the knife and fork in your hands but do not gesticulate with the fork or the knife...
Eight professors of Physics at the University of Iowa have challenged the statement by Nobel Prize winning chemist Willard R. Libby that 90 to 95 per cent U.S. residents could survive an atomic attack with proper protection. They pointed out that Dr. Libby is considering particular kind of attack, and by no means the most probable...