Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told Burgess I had long cherished the hope that he was really a double agent and was working for our side," wrote Churchill in the London Evening Standard. "He said, 'If I were doing that I naturally wouldn't tell you or anyone else, but I did work for military intelligence before the war.' " To Churchill, Burgess appeared to be "a lonely and unhappy man who has ruined his life." He now works for a Russian publishing house, says that he had quarreled with his Co-Conspirator MacLean and scarcely ever sees him, and told Churchill...
...worsened, and some of the airliners circling over Epsom Downs were ordered to land at Gatwick Airport, 25 miles south of London. At 4:50 p.m., with dusk closing in and visibility at only one mile, a Turkish Airlines Viscount reported that it was on Gatwick Airport's standard instrument landing system, and coming in. It was coming...
...Anne Scott-James, 44, who left the Sunday Dispatch fortnight ago to fill the specially created post of adviser to the Beaverbrook empire (four papers with a total circulation of more than 8,000,000); buxom, blonde Eileen Ascroft, forty-sixish, who will leave Beaverbrook's Evening Standard in April to primp up the score of dowdy women's magazines that Press Lord Cecil King (the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial group) got when he bought Amalgamated Press...
...gimmick in the current film is Black Rock itself, a town bearing little resemblance to the standard farmer-cowman battleground. Black Rock is unusually homogeneous, "consumed with apathy," until the appearance of the outsider threatens the power elite and probes the town's collective guilty conscience. The suspension of disbelief called for is somewhat greater than usual, owing to the improbable economic and social set-up of the town, population circa twelve, all of whom sport neuroses of one sort or other. One day's exposure to the hero is all the therapy they need to set them straight, however...
Deciding from the start to limit the repertory to rarely heard operas performed in their original language. Director Callaway set such a high standard with last year's staging of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos that one critic feared listeners would expect a triumph every time. In fact there have been many triumphs, including standout productions of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Audience response matched the performances: paid season subscriptions rose from 322 in 1957 to nearly 2,000 this season...