Word: similarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between the millstones [of] two sovereignties"-the Federal Government and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. If law and order had broken down in Little Rock, Butler submitted, that was not the fault of the school board, which had labored to make integration work. The board's dilemma was similar to that of a drayman, he explained, who was ordered to go from "Point A" to "Point B," and in doing so, to cross a bridge over a deep chasm. The bridge, however, had collapsed. Would it be right, asked he, to require the drayman to make the trip...
...Touch of the Poet is the surviving granddaddy of the five destroyed plays that chronicled the doings of an Irish-American family, 1818-1932. Enemies of O'Neill will probably claim A Touch of the Poet could have met a fate similar to its offspring--with no serious loss to the American theatre. But real O'Neill buffs, and our numbers will not be diminished by Harold Clurman's sensitive mounting of it, will find A Touch of the Poet a poignant piece of theatre...
About houses Berenson has written, "It is a machine a vivre, if you like, as there is a similar machine our bodies, but like my body my house has a soul--I hope." It has indeed. The exterior of I Tatti with its light walls, gardens and terraces is one of those sumptuous affairs the romantics of old would have called a "typical Italian villa." Internally it is unique. Berenson has also observed that a house can be "part of one's raiment, the outerrost garment. ..." It is a perfect description of I Tatti, an instrument for and product...
...similar manner, despite their own intentions, most of those answering the poll gave "social" motives as the reasons for other students' decision to attend Summer School. "Fun," "marriage," or "curiosity" were listed three times more frequently than a desire to take courses. "The majority," one girl said, "seem to have come for the social life." (Her own reason was to "pick up a course I didn't have time for during the year...
...year has brought a great change in the attitude of the HSA towards its public. Time will show a similar change of attitude of students towards HSA. Improved public relations, more regard for the individual entrepreneur, and less attempts at coercion of established business can make the HSA a much less suspected part of the Cambridge community