Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...glare of the diplomatic spotlight, Syria played out the painful role of a nation no longer in command of its own soul. The lines which Syria's statesmen mouthed were delivered in Arabic, but the script had clearly been written in Russia...
ITHACA, N.Y.,-- While Harvard lingers cautiously behind, only occasionally lifting one foot out of the time-honored je parle-tu parles-il parle school of elementary modern language instruction, Cornell University has stepped into a national spotlight of curiosity and mixed criticism with a language program aimed at bringing a student to learn a language rather than learn about...
Eyes & Noes. In election year 1952, the growing spotlight on the Eisenhowers shone even to Korea. It took John a while to get used to what he called "notoriety." And Eighth Army brass, worrying over the possibility of his capture by the Communists, tried hard to keep his frontline whereabouts a secret. On Election Day, John listened to the returns by radio in his tent. Three months later, John was on hand to see his father inaugurated as President of the U.S.-by special order, at first unknown to Ike, of outgoing Commander-in-Chief Harry Truman...
...Cinemoppet Shirley Temple acts as hostess and sometimes star of a new fairy-tale series, and NBC Opera Company will do Rigoletto, Die Meistersinger and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Ed Wynn will get the first star-studded salute from Texaco Command Appearance, an hour-long series spotlighting big-time performers. Henry Saloman's Project 20 will do The Innocent Years (1900-14) and Back in the Thirties; James Michener will produce a one-shot on Southeast Asia, and a new series called Wisdom will present filmed portraits of Dr. Vannevar Bush, Jacques Maritain, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo...
Otherwise . . . In Kingston, Tenn., Cyclist J. B. Cook, booked for public drunkenness after a mile-long flight in which he wove in and out of traffic and pedaled hard to get away despite the patrol car's spotlight and siren, mumbled with chagrin: "There's a lot of play in these handle bars...