Word: soled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sided Respite. Into the vacuum left by the collapse of the U.S.'s hastily laid plans stepped Britain's Anthony Eden. To the Communists' charge that Russia and China are the sole champions of Asian nationalist aspirations, Eden pointed out that since the war, India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon have all achieved independence from Britain. "Therefore I resent and reject the suggestion that we ignore or oppose the tide of national feeling in Asia, and I ask: Where is there real national freedom-in Colombo or in Ulan Bator [capital of Outer Mongolia], in Delhi...
...life are architects rather than painters and sculptors, there are some creatures that indulge in purely decorative art: the bower birds of Australia. In addition to nests these happy birds build bowers of twigs and sticks, some exquisitely decorated with fern fronds, mosses and berries; the bower's sole purpose is for recreation and the entertainment of friends. The satin bower bird even paves his forecourt with shining bits of mica. But his crowning achievement is painting murals in the bower: "He collects charcoal from native hearths and, holding a strip of frayed bark in his beak...
Talent was not lacking for the HDC's production. But the best actors and technicians could not have rescued Marco Millions. As producer, and president of the club, Peter Shoup must take the greatest blame for the evening--although his was probably not the sole decision in selecting this play. One hopes that the cause of the Theatre Committee will not suffer from the infirm choice of a vehicle. The HDC has come too far to be undone by a single ill-advised production of a reliable playwright. Nevertheless, those who want to support the current example of Harvard Theatre...
...present law. The main trouble is that the law takes almost no account of the different status of temporary and permanent visas. Both immigrants and visiting scientists are subjected to a painstaking routine of highly personal probing into their past political affiliations, even for a short visit. The sole exception made for a temporary visitor is to allow him to appeal to the Attorney General, after a written admission of his own political ineligibility to enter. Such a written statement is completely unacceptable to most scientists, for it implies a political position they do not hold...
...Crimson's sole afternoon victory came in the freshman race between these three schools. The Yardling crew beat Navy by a length and Penn by two and a half lengths in the first race of the Skimmer Day festivities of the University of Pennsylvania...