Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage with great, gaudy panels that slide in and out, up and down, through dancing and disaster, life and death. The story line is distressing: boy meets Hong Kong "Yum-Yum girl," boy loves girl, girl loves boy, boy rejects girl, boy returns to girl (Yum Yum!) but cannot support her baby, girl walks out because she loves baby better, baby is killed in earthquake, boy helps pay for funeral. It is lovely, almond-eyed France Nuyen (the Liat of the movie version of South Pacific) who goes farthest toward saving the show with her high-heeled stance, her eloquent...
...this, says Mason, is part of a housing revolution that buyers, builders and manufacturers must support. Up to now, many builders who added extra features to their houses failed to attract buyers because they had not been educated to recognize quality. Manufacturers of building materials have also stressed cost, rather than quality, even though they would all benefit from better homes. By emphasizing quality, they could attract more buyers to the market, help step up the yearly building rate from the present 1,117,000 to the 1,400,000 most experts think the U.S. needs...
...minor characters each preserve the rugged uniqueness of the mountain people: Pablo, the guerilla leader, animal-like and cowardly, dulled with wine and inactivity; Pilar, his woman, who assumes command when he no longer cares; Anselmo, the old Pacifist, who is forced to kill to support the Republic...
...Student Council has scheduled for early discussion the perennial question of continued membership in the National Student Association. In some quarters, unfortunately, there is strong feeling that Harvard, like several other Ivy League colleges, does not benefit from the NSA and should therefore withdraw its support...
While the NSA is currently doing its most important work in the area of racial integration, which does not affect Harvard directly, this organization is still the sole official voice of American students, and as such wields a power and responsibility which exceeds the sometimes half-hearted support it receives from many Eastern colleges...