Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instant Stonehenge" by the critical Washington Post and Times Herald. The Post last week suggested that one of the slabs carry an epitaph to the shortlived National Recovery Administration (1933-35): "Here lies beneath this pillar grey/The late-lamented NRA/It lived and breathed and had its day/But, thank the Lord, it went away...
...Dream went on too long. Mendelssohn's music soon began to sound too sugary, and Balanchine, although unfailingly clever, offered few novel ideas. Nevertheless, he and the City Ballet had produced a sure crowd rouser ("Every night," said Balanchine, "I go to bed and say 'Thank you, Mr. Mendelssohn' "). Chances were excellent that Midsummer Night's Dream would become exactly what its backers hoped-"a Nutcracker for grownups...
Poor fellow! His is indeed a thank-less job. He must watch out for his university's relations with a board of regents, a legislature, an alumni association, and a whole state's population--none of which is likely to set much store by the ideas "those crazy college kids" are prone to propound. But in his concern with all these, he has lost sight of his first responsibility, which is the education of the young. And the young are a troublesome, feisty lot. They will explore the frontiers of knowledge, and sometimes venture far beyond, instead of being content...
...survey of U.S. Benedictinism will be appreciated by Benedictines throughout the country. It is sometimes difficult to answer the layman's query, "What do you do in the monastery?". TIME'S balanced reply points up the present situation and indicates the course of our deepening development. We thank...
...After hearing Kennan describe Siberia's prison camps, Mark Twain exclaimed: "If such a government cannot be overthrown otherwise than by dynamite, then thank God for dynamite...