Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ironies is that the exploration of space is inescapably tangled up with the momentous struggle called the cold war. Some of the talented scientists helping to shape U.S. space policy in Washington seem to think that by labeling outer space a "civilian" domain they can keep it free of the contaminating struggle. For a down-to-earth look at this wistful illusion and its dangers, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, On Pain of Extinction...
...current incarnation, Twelfth Night takes place on and in front of an airy outdoor platform, half ruin and half arbor, with stone pillars in the center and wooden frames trimmed with leaves on the sides. Though there is no scene which does not seem entirely at home in this environment, its air of almost-sombreness has the effect of bringing the low comedy scenes into closer accord with the rest of the play than Shakespeare probably intended...
...from the prevailing mood of quiet delicacy. But this mood is enunciated with such graceful strength in the set, that although Mr. Benthall puts his actors through all the burps and stumbles common in Shakespearean slapstick (or at least allows them a free hand in this respect), they never seem coarse or even very vigorous. The basis of the comic subplot is the duping of Malvolio, the puritanical steward, by a group of cheerful tosspots--a little joke which has occasionally struck critics as cruel, since Malvolio is at one point chained in a dungeon as a madman. Before...
...gone underground. Faculty at the University of California, Haverford College, and Columbia have framed resolutions condemning the current practice among security investigators of determining the liberal inclinations of federal job applicants by inquiring into students' academic pasts. "What did he talk about? What organizations did he join? Did he seem sympathetic to radical ideas...
...knowledge of whom they are voting for than will ever again be possible at the Class-wide level. Since the actual responsibility of the Marshals is quite small, and since the House system has changed the make-up of the "old Harvard" to a very considerable degree, it would seem best to remove the anachronism of Class Marshals in favor of a purely House-elected body...