Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Republicans and Democrats thought the Kennedy-Ives bill an effective measure to insure union democracy and to give control of welfare and pension funds to union members. The bill received the overwhelming affirmative vote of 88-1 in the Senate. Before the bill was considered by the House an extensive campaign was launched against it. Life, an unquestionably Republican magazine, attributed this lobbying campaign to the Teamsters, who seem to have a vested interest in racketeering, and to the National Association of Manufacturers and the United States Chamber of Commerce, who seem almost to prefer to keep racketeering...
...Tibetan, yab is an honorific for father and yum for mother, signifying the spiritual idea of cosmic polarity much as the principles of yang and yin do in Chinese thought...
Perkins commended the students who developed the idea for the House production. "They have a very well-thought out plan," he stated. On the opening evening of the production, Lowell House members and their dates will be admitted free of charge. On the other four evenings of the plays run, an admission fee of $1.50 will be charged...
Because I found this article so interesting, I thought it worth while pointing out one inaccuracy in it, which I am sure you too would wish to correct. Mr. Titcomb rightly comments upon the theatrical "coup" of obtaining the rights to Shaw's Pygmalion, but incorrectly assigns the credit for so doing to Mr. Jerome Kilty. Mr. Kilty, as local audiences well know, is an extremely talented and valuable member of our company, but it was Group 20's Managing-Director, Miss Alison Ridley, who was entirely responsible for obtaining the rights to the play, after six months of work...
...also glad that Mr. Titcomb thought their production an artistic success. What I would question here is not his opinion but his logic. It does not follow that, if the same exacting play had been produced ten years before by a totally different group, it would have been equally successful. What it would have been like, for better or worse, we shall never know. But we may well regard the Theater Workshop's change of mind as a responsible act of self-criticism. Harry Levin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature...