Word: tente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haliday said last night that there was a long-range possibility that next summer a tent could be erected, possibly on the banks of the Charles, to house a drama festival...
...Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam's sprucest fighting force, Abdullah ruled the sandy wastes as a Bedouin black-tent state...
...fellow artists to make the festival "an expression of our love, devotion and gratitude for Casals." Pablo Casals was characteristically less concerned about himself than about the music he would not be able to play. "What a pity," he murmured when he woke from a nap under his oxygen tent. "Such a wonderful orchestra...
...Truth. Last year, after weeks of discussion, the monks decided to broaden their cultural bridge. With the agreement of Sultan Mohammed V, they built a lecture hall, laid foundations for a tent city and gardens, sent invitations to the world's universities for scholars to attend a three-week seminar on social, religious and political problems, e.g., "The Role of Women in International Life," "The Black World and Modern Civilization." The conference was a success; some 150 students from 18 European, Asian and African countries attended the lectures and discussions, and as many as 1,000 spectators crowded into...
...flawless, but too personal for pacing flat, stylized farce. He doubtless gives the play something extra. But if Hotel Paradiso lacks the sustained period-farce verve of last season's The Matchmaker, it may partly be because Lahr is not Ruth Gordon's equal as a center tent-pole, either in the sturdiness with which she held whole situations upright, or in the barbaric magnificence with which she could topple them over...