Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grew is worth some effort, even from initiates. Beneath its self-congratulatory veneer, the story generates considerable poignancy and appeal. There is the little girl who takes a train trip from Seattle with her beloved parents to visit relatives in Minneapolis. Then her mother and father die, victims of the flu epidemic of 1918, leaving the heroine and three younger brothers orphaned into the harsh care of an aunt and uncle: "If I was beaten with a razor-strop for having won a prize in a city-wide essay contest, I had no need to ask myself...
...play focuses on two groups in a segregated waiting area of Savannah's train depot. On one bench sit The Marshalls, a stiff and respectable Black family--Mother (Erika Dilday), Father (Mark Awobuluyi) and teenage daughter Bridget (Elizabeth Wint). Two lower-class "white boys," Jackie Saunders (Steve Barr) and Benny Jones (Scott Chavez), eye them from across the bare stage, whispering and wondering "what it's like to live like them...
...applies to the whole Department, not just to American history. I find it easy to justify the principle. Specific subfields may pass the test of time, or they may not. The best historians, however, can be expected to exert a lasting influence upon the discipline, and to train students who in turn become leaders in their fields, new and old. This Department has trained some of the most important historians in the country, including two of the first practitioners of women's history. Finally, I wish to comment on the false dilemma posed by your headline, "A Matter of Breadth...
Marine officers who train the embassy guards point out that their men had performed without a known security breach for 38 years. The fault, they argue, lies with lax supervision by State Department security officials. A Pentagon source said that a former security officer is under investigation for malfeasance at the Moscow embassy when Lonetree and Bracy were there. The State Department has brought its current security officer in the region home for questioning. As the State Department quizzes its employees at the 225-member embassy, the initial responses, says one source, "are discomforting...
...Trevor Nunn, Set Designer John Napier and Lighting Designer David Hersey, who mounted Nicholas Nickleby, plus Composer Lloyd Webber and Lyricist Richard Stilgoe, who had joined the former trio to devise Cats. In reconceiving the show for Broadway, the creators had some smart ideas: instead of a gloomy, abandoned train siding, the gaudy set now represents a panorama of the U.S., dotted with highlights a child might recognize, from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge; the recorded narration too is now by a child: Braden Danner, who appears live in the Main Stem's other...