Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disturbed over the possibility that the U.S. will appear to be too arrogant in world affairs. He is troubled by "pronouncements of rigid policy by American leaders" and by "the growing emphasis on the military aspect of anti-Communist defense." Any unilateral action by the U.S., he fears, "will tend to confirm the Communist charge that our purpose is not disinterested cooperation but self-interested domination." As the U.S. stands before the world it must be humble. "We are never going to solve many of the hard problems of the world, but will simply have to learn to live with...
There are very nice songs like There's a Small Hotel, but Rodgers gave the show a ballet rather than top-drawer show music, and Hart gave it lyrics that tend to shout their cleverness. It is the Rodgers-Hart-Abbott libretto, however, that lays a curse upon the evening-the look, if ever there was one, of three men on an elephant...
...Different. From Savonarola to Billy Sunday, evangelists have exhorted sinners to repentance and preached salvation as a right-now, yes-or-no decision. The hot Gospel played a major part in the making of America, when churches were fewer, distances vast and life hard. But upper-crust Christians tend to regard the sweaty urgency of evangelistic Christianity as frequently hypocritical and always in bad taste. Billy Graham is different...
...chairman Charles S. Lamonte '56 and Vernon B. Thomas '56, members of the new 12-man PBH drives committee, have set no quota on a drive. "Students tend to lose enthusiasm when the drive passes it you," Lamonte said yesterday...
Occasionally, The Purification's copious imagery and symbolism become almost unmanageable, and its full-blown phrases tend to give the actors every appearance of being carried away by the sheer beauty of their own performances. Yet the Workshop's players skip over the more leaden passages with a minimum of difficulty. Hal scott, as the Son, is the most outstanding member of the cast, although too often he chokes dramatically at the end of climactic lines. Don Richards, as The Rancher, and Mary Anne Goldsmith, as the Indian girl Luisa, provide competent support...