Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desirability of disarmament," and to charge that the West was deliberately sabotaging the London negotiations by tying disarmament issues to German reunification in a "deal" simply to help the Adenauer government win reelection. He threw in a gratuitous hint that the nuclear warfare against the British, "in view of their geographical and economic conditions, would mean irremediable catastrophe...
...holds pretty much that the navel of the universe is in Texas, very likely in Houston itself. Like its postwar predecessors, it has doggedly opposed teaching little Houstonians anything about the United Nations. Last April it banned every textbook with even a hint of a one-world point of view, finally drove patient School Superintendent William Moreland into resigning (TIME, April 22). Last week it announced the latest phase of its crusade-a revision of the elementary-school social-studies curriculum that will keep Houston's younger generation safe from learning anything at all about three-fourths...
FLORENCE'S PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA can boast that it is the greatest open-air sculpture museum in the world. There, with a commanding view, stands the massive equestrian statue of Cosimo I. Past the Fountain of Neptune is the copy of Michelangelo's great David. Still on public view are Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus and Donatello's Judith and Holoferaes...
What if the average person were to live 300 years? Or 3000? Well, this is the problem examined by Bernard Shaw in his Back to Methuselah. This play is getting its first American production since the 1922 world premiere in New York. It is especially welcome and timely in view of Wellesley's current presentation of Man and Superman. For Shaw wrote Methuselah in 1921 as a companion sequel to his Superman of 1903. In the earlier play Shaw argued his thesis, taken from Schopenhauer, that woman is the pursuer rather than the pursued; and his ideas, taken from Bergson...
There is room for argument on whether The Gondoliers is the very best of G & S, or whether by 1889, when it was first produced, the old formula was becoming somewhat stylized and losing its freshness. Actually, I subscribe to the former view, for the opera contains some of the most ingenious of Gilbert's lyrics, a generous supply of Sullivan's best tunes, and more than a sprinkling of biting satire which seems even more relevant today than...