Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evident across the U.S., in the midst of brisk consumer spending for new cars, power boats and vacation-bound plane trips, was an almost rebellious hostility toward threatened tax boosts and heavy governmental spending. "Wherever I go," said Boston Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate, "all I hear is 'cut that budget!' " Echoed Chicago Republican Albert Hachmeister, member of the state legislature: "Even parents of schoolchildren come to me and say, 'No more tax increases, please, not even for schools.' " Said San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher: "It used...
...Well, they reached rock bottom last week," my date astutely commented Tuesday night as we left the Tufts Arena Theater. And right she was, both in the statement itself and in its implication that Tufts has taken the first tentative step back toward respectability with the production this week of Alison's House by Susan Glaspell...
...written for the proscenium stage, or the room with three walls, as someone once called it, there are distinct problems of staging at Tufts. One of the most obvious of these is how to point your actors. On the proscenium stage there is no problem, you point them toward the audience. When the audience is on all sides though, one would think that this solution could not be used. Mr. Hanson did it though, at one point producing a circle of seven people all facing outwards, like the bull moose protecting the herd from the foraging wolves. At other times...
Brahms thought highly enough of this early trio to rework it into a new version toward the end of his life. It shows a mastery of form and material worthy of Beethoven. But it is by no means an imitative or "student" work. Brahms was a mature and consummate composer right from his Opus...
...will be marked by both closed and opened sessions. Scientists will join with leaders of industry, government, and education in an attempt to evaluate the influence of large organizations, such as universities and industrial and governmental laboratories, on the creativity of individuals and groups. The conferences, with a view toward increasing scientific creativity in America, will measure the extent of significant discoveries in their various fields and settings, and try to identify reasons for success and failure...