Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United States and other minority voters don't think the UN can really act on its vote. They pointed out that failure to implement the decision could be disastrous to the UN, and that at present this failure seems most likely. The UN has no army because member nations can't agree on which country should give what, and how forces should be used--they are worried about losing "sovereignty." And, of course, there is the matter of financing a program that could run way over the budget allotment. Thus, opponents state, the UN should have established the army first...
Take nine players, throw them into a living room, knock out a wall and give them an audience. Without action the result is liable to be dull exposition of the ordinary topics of life, unless a catalytic agent is inserted. In the present production by the Brattle Hall players, George Bernard Shaw is the catalyst; his magic transforms the discussion into an amusing, intelligent play which the actors handle in a most capable manner...
There are three choices: to continue with the present system, and investigate its results after another decade; to make appointments as vacancies appear and as many needs arise; or to find some system which retain the consistency of the present methods but allow for reasonable flexibility and sensitivity in apportionment of permanent, had paid instruction to fit the demands of times...
...Present plans would make the skating facilities available to all students in the University, their guests, and probably Radcliffe. But because of existing rules for student organizations, any "Skating Club" formed would have to be strictly Harvard students, and 50 percent undergraduates. Eighty-one percent of the ballots counted said the voter "Would favor Radcliffe membership in the skating club...
...present time, a radio set is the most intimate means of mass communication. Other countries have used it to considerable advantage in raising the educational level of their population...