Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Curtain the hope of the free world?" asked Ferguson. Countered Stassen: A tight blockade would increase disunity in the free world. "I can't agree with you," Ferguson replied. "I can't agree that the people of the free world are going to be broken up by stress or strain before the people behind the Iron Curtain...
...Lenten days that began March 3 and will end at Eastertide* have been for Christians a time for prayer and devotion, and for all men a time of urgency and stress. History, poised between Ivy and Jughead, between the 38th parallel and Dienbienphu, has enforced a Lenten mood upon the nations with the sack cloth of political conflict and showers of radioactive ash. The chocolate bunnies, the dizzy eggs and the pretty bonnets of Easter are the more incongruous for it. For Lent looks to the real Easter; and to lift high that great light in man's darkness...
...Rome Opera House puts great stress on some kinds of decorum: the doorman turned famed Composer Igor Stravinsky away one night last week because he was not in formal dress. But Romans have no rules against hoots and whistles during a performance that fails to please them. Boulevard Solitude, a muchdiscussed, three-year-old opera by a 27-year-old German named Hans Werner Henze, went against the grain that night and drew a record outburst...
...amiable Hans Werner Henze, who was drafted in the Wehrmacht at 16, rose to corporal, was dazed and worried at his reception. "It's simply a modern love story," he said. "Love and beauty are always expressed in pure dodecaphony [twelve-tone technique], but when I want to stress corruption and immorality the music becomes tonal. They say my opera shows evil, but how can one be evil when one is sincere?" He had one consolation: "At least," he said, "nobody fell asleep at my opera...
There has been pressure from some alumni to put Harvard football on nationwide television. Naturally, alumni want to generate public esteem for the College. But the undue stress this would put on football as a college activity would far outweigh any gains in general good will. By recruiting players to build television prestige, well-intentioned supporters might undermine the College's policy of athletic "sanity...