Word: majority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Another major stone in the structure of international rule by law must be a body of international law adapted to the changing needs of today's world. There are dozens of countries which have attained their independence since the bulk of existing international law was evolved...
...pageant of President Eisenhower's official tour, one American woman had a spotlight all to herself. The only trouble was that Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 33, is the kind of woman who would much prefer to avoid the spotlight. But as wife of Major John Eisenhower, daughter-in-law of the President, and (in Mamie's absence) a kind of unofficial U.S. First Lady on the trip, Barbara Eisenhower began to relax last week and have a happy time...
...small brass and wind ensemble (augmented by a lone bass viol) had far greater problems to overcome in Varese's Octandre, composed in 1924. One of the major difficulties of this score is that it depends for its effect almost entirely on subtle variations of volume and orchestration for its effect. Moreover, it is written without much care for the capacities of the individual instruments and makes enormous, almost unattainable, demands on the rhythmic accuracy of the players. It is certainly not an aggressively unpleasant work and some piquant arrangements of the brass sonorities were intriguing. Yet, the work seems...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, supported Kennedy along with Galbraith and three others. Brinton framed the major issue of the times as: "orthodox or 'classical' economics, and what I'll call Keynesian or Galbraithian economics: . . . whether we are to let our present methods of production and distribution produce the kind of consumers' goods that annoy the intellectuals, or whether we will tamper politically so as to produce education, housing, hospitals, public transportation, which people ought to want...
Dean Monro's proposal to put non-Honors tutorial under supervision of the General Education Committee is at once a marriage of convenience and a major step in educational policy. The utility of placing the new program under an existing interdepartmental administrative committee was clear to the Masters, but the real opportunity presented should not be obscured by the burdens which will be imposed on the Committee...