Word: scene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Hernan Siles Zuazo has shown more courage and determination than most observers close to the scene would have expected two or three years ago. However, the real power is in the hands of the armed and Communist-led mineworkers unions who will not permit the steps necessary to economic recovery. U.S. aid policy has, for the past six years, been strengthening their hand...
Denis D. Barber '60, has been arrested for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident yesterday afternoon in Boston. A detective who witnessed the accident claimed that Barber struck a pedestrian and then fled...
...riot" was culminated when someone turned in a false fire alarm, which brought five pieces of fire equipment to the scene. One of the Cambridge policemen said, "It was obviously a Harvard student who turned in the alarm to get back at the Bick for levying the minimum...
...Smithies is suited to this rhetorical, ironic drama; he knows how to shape a long speech for maximum effect, and how to deliver a comic line without breaking the tension of a serious scene. Antigone calls Creon a "cook" in the "kitchen of politics," but she cannot realize how a man can be unheroic and still a king; Mr. Smithies, in more than one sense, has the requisite authority. Perhaps Antigone is not supposed to be a play primarily about Creon and the problem of a professional monarch, but without twisting the script noticeably out of shape, Mr. Smithies contrives...
...girl who made her debut in the YWCA and grew up to "rock an empire," and Amyn Khan, an Yma Sumac, whose attraction for men--all men--is fatal, are marvelous. All of them can sing, all of them can act, and all of them have excellent parts. The scene in which they get together to protest that each is really a "Lady at Heart," is a high point of the show...