Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under these static circumstances, the play is not the thing, or even a play. Essentially, Happy Days is a monologue by a compulsive talker. A strident school bell signals the times when Winnie must wake and sleep; in between comes the terrible recess of endurance, the "happy day" to be survived. She utters a prayer, sings a song, chews the nostalgic cud of memory. Actress Ruth White, though she plays her role with more gallantry than Beckett's morgue-attendant austerities call for, stars vocally: she croons, keens, gurgles, fumes and screams at her all-but-silent partner...
From then on it was undeclared war, and Lacerda is a formidable antagonist. He returned to Rio and announced that Justice Minister Horta had invited him to join a Quadros plot to grab more authority for himself by sending Brazil's holdover Congress into permanent recess. As Lacerda's charges began to stir a fuss, Quadros dramatically resigned. It was seven years and a day from the resignation and suicide of Brazilian Strongman Getúlio Vargas, another President who had incurred Lacerda's wrath...
...Chief Executive has ever had more judicial posts to fill at one time than Non-Lawyer John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Deaths, vacancies and recess appointments that required resubmission to the Senate gave him 33 jobs to fill for a start. Last May the Democratic Congress, having delayed for more than a year with partisan forethought, passed a bill providing for 73 desperately needed new District and Appellate Court judgeships. In all, Kennedy now has the power to appoint more than one-fourth of the federal bench. Since judges are appointed for life, John Kennedy's choices will have a powerful...
...these charges, with supporting evidence by eminent medical men, were in the records of the U.S. Senate's Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee last week when Chairman Estes Kefauver adjourned its hearings for a summer recess. They were just what the Senator wanted to back up his contention that the laws relating to safety, testing, efficacy, pricing and promotion of drugs are in need of a drastic overhaul...
...Class of 1911 returned for its junior year to be met with the news that William James, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, had died during the summer recess. In a CRIMSON editorial, James was called Harvard's "greatest figure in the world of thought...