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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feature work of the concert was Igor Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex," written to the Latin verse of Jean Cocteau. The Glee Club made it appropriately the most impressive event of the evening. "Oedipus" is dominated by strong dramatic tension created by the jarring chords of the piano, the roll of the kettledrums, and the vocal crescendos of the chorus...

Author: By Bonhomme Vieuxmont, | Title: The Music Box | 3/2/1951 | See Source »

...coach could be fired. When it stayed bad in 1950, the head of an athletic director of 25 years' standing could hit the basket. But defeat and disgrace for the Crimson debating team! That's a debacle of a higher order. Whose head is left to roll but that of President James Bryant Conant? --From the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 2/27/1951 | See Source »

...cope with all the brush fires world Communism could start; eventually, the arsonist's ability to start fires had to be ended or limited at the source. This, in turn, meant that containment as a U.S. policy was dead and had been replaced by an intention to roll back the power of world Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE U.S. GETS A POLICY | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...Timber!" Waiting for her operation, Mrs. Levandowski was merry and full of jokes. To turn over in bed, she had to call for a task force of nurses. "They'd come arunning," she says, "and when they'd roll me over, I'd yell 'Timber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Cyst at Burnips | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...DiSalle had little choice, now that he had slapped on retail price ceilings while livestock prices were uncontrolled. Last week he hinted to farm-bloc Congressmen that when & if he freezes livestock prices that are above parity, he will not roll back prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONTROLS: Noble Experiment | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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