Word: topically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Crimson entries Robert M. O'Neil '56 and David P. Bryden '57 upheld the negative of the controversial recognition of Red China topic. They were the only team out of the 27 college entered that went undefeated in seven preliminary rounds...
...England, long denied membership in the clannishly male, 140-year-old Cambridge Union, female Cantabrigians set up their own debating society, the Cambridge University Women's Union. Then they straightway scheduled their first debate at the sacrosanct Red Lion Hotel, where the Men's Union was born. Topic: "Resolved, that women's place is in this house." Scoffed Cambridge Union President Richard Moore: "The whole thing will probably prove only that women cannot debate...
Kiratein, the former director of New York's City Center theatre, is the founder and former leader of the City Center Ballet Company, one of the first America ballet companies. His topic is "The Future of the Lyric Theatre," but it will probably encompass the future of the whole artistic theatre, MacLeish believes...
...every five is affiliated with Reform today, and the total membership is approximately 1,000,000 (Orthodox Judaism claims 2,000,000 members, Conservative, 2,000,000). This progress report was issued at the 43rd biennial Assembly of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations in Los Angeles. Another major topic: Israel. What that country needs, said Rabbi Herbert Weiner (Temple Israel, South Orange, N.J.), is a relaxed form of Judaism like Reform. Rabbi Weiner urged a three-year experimental religious program there, including a "pilot" Reform synagogue in Haifa. Israelis, he said, should have some other alternative. "The tragedy...
Experts in any field, however, have the characteristic faculty of making their work look easy. Cadillac does this for comedy-writing precisely because it is an expert comedy, skillfully contrived to wrest a maximum of humor from every topic it touches...