Word: role
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With China lost to Communism, the free world needed a new anchor in Asia. Whether India could play that role depended largely on the chance of much closer understanding and cooperation between India and the U.S., a land almost unknown to nine-tenths of Nehru's countrymen. Washington was taking careful account of the Prime Minister's longstanding prejudice and his people's instinctive suspicion of the "imperialist West...
...debut at the Colonial, however, "Regina" is not receiving the production it deserves. Costumes, set, and potential singing and acting talent are lavisbly present. Jane Fickens has a good voice and enough unpleasantness for the mean role of Regina, and Brenda Lewis has singing ability and desperation for the unhappy Birdic. The other players seem quite adequate. But Robert Lewis' direction is seriously incpt and gross. Birdie begins too many of her songs lovingly stroking the back of a satin chair. The frollicking little Negro boy is nothing but trite, and Regina's daughter, Alexandra, is far more...
Gummere described the admission of students as a "cross between the science of human relations and the use of a sliding technical scale." A boy's predicted rank in college, he said, plays an important role in the final decision...
...candidate, all-freshman cast for the "Princess" will include Isabel Fulton as the princess; Betsy Brown, the Bareness von Brock; Martha Fontek, Lady von Haeldorf; Nene Collins, Milly; Carrio Sue Wright, Mrs. Lindeman; Florence Potter, Rosa; and Elizabeth Richards in the one male role as the student...
British author and lecturer Mrs. Margaret Cole will speak on "The Role of Fabianism in British Social History" at 8:30 p. m. tonight in Cabot Hall...