Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Responsibility for the general fiasco rests with nearly everyone but the set designer, John Beck, whose amazingly careful stone walls and interesting extended floor areas triumph over the standard limitations of Agassiz. The sets were helped by fine, if not always timely lighting. It is a shame to waste such a fine background...
...independence leaders succeeded in shaking the French applecart, Mohammed became increasingly dangerous to French influence, was summarily exiled in 1953 to Corsica, then Madagascar (along with his wives, five children). After rebellion flared in Morocco, the French were forced to bring him back in 1955, to the song of triumph from his own people. Thereupon he set out on a program toward constitutional monarchy. Though still autocratic in his ways, he has inspired modernization of his people and the country, remained devoted to the West (if not wholeheartedly to France). In this, he shunned Egypt's Nasser...
Nasser has always spurned Western aid as "aid with strings." Yet chances are that his latest loan, like Syria's, also covers new arms aid, and, like Syria's, provides for explicit Russian approval for each project as it comes up. The press called the deal "a triumph for Egypt's positive neutralism...
...week saw and happily survived the meeting of two overwhelming and unpredictable forces: the State of Texas and Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas. For a while it looked as if the encounter might end in a total disaster, but it turned out a triumph for both Callas and Dallas...
...cross country team remained undefeated until its last meet of the season, the Heptagonals, when it finished third, behind Cornell and Navy. The harriers won six meets against nine different opponents, including the Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular race; this last triumph made them "Big Three" champions...