Word: extravaganza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dartmouth's athletic department makes a practice of inviting at least one Harvard team to its gala extravaganza. Last year the hockey team completely overpowered the Big Green. But the Carnival is supposed to be a time when all Dartmouth students can enjoy themselves, including the players. This year the schedule makers picked on the perennially weak Crimson quintet...
...problem of deciding exactly what kind of life they want to live. Bick Benedict, the American male-and-father image, reaches two conclusions--that he likes the simple life and that nothing in his life has gone according to plan. Hollywood, with its obvious delight in the movie's extravaganza and its faith in the ultimate triumph of American idealism, succeeds thoroughly in giving him the lie. For the Giant thesis is that everything will turn out wealthy, and all right...
Remembering that one night later another television extravaganza would celebrate the President's 66th birthday, Mrs. Samuel Harper of Portland, Me. rose, asked what present Ike most wanted. Said he: "Exactly the same as ... every other American ... an assurance that a just peace [is] on the horizon...
...NAACP is more circumspect and refrains from staging an extravaganza, a Negro would probably meet no student resistance of important proportions. This is due primarily to the effects of the February riots. Probably the great majority of the students who participated in the demonstrations had no idea that their action would have such national and international repercussions. No one wishes to be characterized as a mobster, and only after the rioting was over did what had happened become clear. Students also realize that the reputation of the school was badly injured by the incident. Moreover, there is not only...
...country. Last week he woke up with a start to discover that Adlai Stevenson held a runaway lead for the Democratic nomination. And next week even the most somnolent of the U.S.'s 120 million televiewers will know full well that the biggest and boomingest and showiest convention extravaganza in the history of national politics is at hand...