Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twenty-four plays in twenty-four weeks, including O'Neill and Shakespeare." (Imagine a repertory company doing a play a week, including O'Neill and Shakespeare, in, say, a middle-sized city in Pennsylvania. Even a city the size of Boston seems hardly willing to bestir itself to support a repertory theatre.) He That Plays the King, his book on the drama, came out in 1951; it includes material written at Oxford and while directing in Staffordshire...
...ancient oriental feudalism. Twice as large as Texas, lying in the very heart of Asia, it is a land of mountains and craterlike valleys that seem to have been ripped from the moon. Its people are handsome, cheerful and indescribably dirty. About four-fifths of them work to support one-fifth, who are shut up in lamaseries. What little land is not owned by the monks belongs either to the Dalai Lama or to about 150 noble families, who have kept their names and acres intact down the centuries by a mixture of polygyny and polyandry. To safeguard their ancestral...
...rest of the world cheered the rebels and denounced their oppressors but made no other move. India, the biggest free neighbor, was giving shamefaced support to Premier Nehru's reiterated insistence that "India was anxious to have friendly relations with Red China...
...main argument of the editorial--that support should not be given to athletics by the Faculty because it only involves half the school is rather weak. Less than half the school will use the new theatre, as well as the Fogg Museum, or even the Geography Department for which you have so consistently fought...
...case, the editorial raises for consideration several more basic questions which have been concerning our committee. The decision to withdraw financial support from lacrosse was a product of much deliberation by the Administration and the HAA; it can be taken both as an indication of the need for economy, and of the Administration's reluctant willingness to take drastic steps in the area. In fact, the growing feeling in the Ivy group that athletics must be re-evaluated has led the Student Council committee to concern itself at length with the basic assumptions, aims and purposes of athletics: intercollegiate, intramurals...