Word: tweeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harrison Tweed '07, Chiarman of the Sarah Lawrence Board of Trustees, puts it, "The New Arts Building is not a luxury. It is a necessity." Margaret Webster, famous theatrical producer and director, lauds the College's theater program. "In these days the art of the thetre fights a tremendous battle against economic pressure," she says. "Its place in our civilization may well be won or lost in the young theatres of the colleges and universities. Sarah Lawrence has already made a fine contribution to a fine cause...
...connected with the college is particularly worried about either the unsubstantiated accusals of radicalism and loose morals or the atmosphere that results from a free speaking faculty and a free moving student body. Harrison Tweed '07, a Harvard overseer, is the chairman of the Sarah Lawrence board of trustees. Again, in the formation of this body, the college uses a unique framework. The board's 24 members includes one faculty trustee elected by the instructors and two mothers of Sarah Lawrence students...
...Tweed's only worry is not with policy, but in making sure that the college gets enough money to pay its bills. As long as the money can be found, he is willing to go along with any of Taylor's plans...
Instead of the frayed and buttonless clothes which he wears around the home palace grounds to save money, the miserly Nizam wore a well-pressed and spotless outfit-yellow turban, tweed coat, loose white trousers and black shoes. He peeled $1,000 off his own bundle (at least $200 million), laid in a supply of tea, cakes, nuts, ice cream, tomato juice and lemon squash, and gave an elegant garden party for New Delhi's 400, among them junketing Eleanor Roosevelt and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The Nizam gathered six sons and four daughters around...
...over a loudspeaker sounded like mice in the attic. The best thing about Partch's music was that it seldom got in the way of the actors, who half-spoke, half-sang the lines. After four curtain calls for the actors, Composer Partch, in deep purple shirt and tweed jacket, came onstage to a roar of bravos...