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...beer, and trays of tai fish for a long day of celebration. For most of his adult life, Ichiro Hatoyama has longed to govern Japan. In fact, even before he was born, his politician father intended him to be a politician, and his mother, a woman of learning and vigor who believed that a child in the womb is shaped by the mother's thoughts, carefully limited her pregnancy reading to biographies of great men and politicians. "I do not wish to give birth to a child with a small mind," Haruko Hatoyama wrote in her diary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Land of the Reluctant Sparrows | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

...president of the Seattle Harvard Club also supported Miller "with the utmost vigor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Univ. of Wash. Professors Concur on Miller's Stand | 3/8/1955 | See Source »

...that he can never really be complex about people. His deserter who sees himself "reduced to one dimension," has nowhere been raised to even two. Indeed, the cardboard flatness of Fry's scoundrel almost foredooms the play as drama. And Tyrone Power acts him with forthright but misguided vigor: what the part needs is sinuousness and style. For the serenities of the countess, Katharine Cornell's personal graciousness is more in accord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...concert with Haydn's great 'London' Symphony in D. It is to his everlasting credit that he observed Haydn's indicated repeats in the outside movements--a rarity in these days of money-minded record companies and clock-minded union officials. The musicians performed with unsophisticated dash and hearty vigor, which would have marred Mozart but was just right here. Haydn would have been pleased...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Bach Society Orchestra | 2/15/1955 | See Source »

Interest taken by college students in the School's program of revitalization and expansion has been the main reason for the record increase, associate professor John P. Dillenberger, the Divinity School admission director, said last night. Dillenberger credited a great part of the School's new vigor to the influence of President Pusey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity Dean Reports Rise In Applicants | 2/11/1955 | See Source »

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