Word: william
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrived in Manhattan. ACT is distressingly average, and its three-play fare is flaccidly representative of regional-theater programming: one funny (A Flea in Her Ear), one classic (The Three Sisters) and one warmed-over Broadway Provocative (Tiny Alice). When he worked off-Broadway, ACT'S director William Ball was a sensitive, scrupulous directorial craftsman (Under Milk Wood, Ivanov). With his own company, Ball has become a puppetmaster who makes his players dance more than they...
Fundamentalism was on the defensive in the Roaring Twenties, and William Jennings Bryan, its principal spokesman, found himself under siege by the giants of the emerging Liberalism. He was attacked not only in the press by Henry Mencken and in the courtroom by Clarence Darrow, but even from the pulpit by a bright-eyed Baptist who had the temerity to question the virgin birth and the second coming of Christ...
...closed shop to Europe. In Britain, which has never refused a U.S. oil company's application to enter its markets, the reaction was especially bitter. Some members of Parliament hinted at retaliation against U.S. business in Britain. Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart protested to Secretary of State William Rogers...
After two months in orbit 300 miles above the earth, an automatic telescope designed and assembled at the Harvard College Observatory is working perfectly. The ultra-violet light experiment aboard Orbiting Solar Observatory VI (OSO-VI) "is meeting 100 per cent of our expectations," said William H. Parkinson, lecturer on Astronomy and co-director of the project. "We've got a winner...
...William B. Shockley. Nobel Prize winner in physics from Stanford University, was prevented from speaking at Dartmouth College when 25 students applauded so loudly he could not be heard. Although Shockley specializes in semi-conductors and invented the junction transistor, his paper dealt with the hereditary factors in intelligence, and was called "Offset Analysis of Racial Differences...