Word: recommendation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FEBRUARY, 1947--Associated Harvard Clubs and Alumni Association pick 14-man Committee to recommend suitable war memorial...
...much impressed with the sincerity of the Alumni Committee for a University Memorial Activities Center, and the need for a student center," the report read, "the Committee felt that a Student Center, while possible as a form of war memorial, was not a proper one for it to recommend because (of) its costs... Further more such a Memorial might become outmoded for the purpose for which it would be dedicated...
...Openers. As editor, David Astor had more to recommend himself than the family name. No man to let his schooling interfere with his education, he took six months off between Eton and Oxford to roam Germany. In Heidelberg one day in 1931, he saw and was shocked by a prenatal symptom of the police state: lines of trucks packed with truncheon-bearing police, ready to charge if unionists clashed with rowdy Nazi paraders. His mother, Nancy Astor, and her Cliveden Set didn't want to be beastly to the Germans during the Munich era, but David Astor was already...
Tradition & Invention. Any production of Hamlet stands or falls, in the long run, by the quality of its leading actor. Most productions have little to recommend them except a good Hamlet; few have that. This one, in every piece of casting, in every performance, is about as nearly solid as gold can be. It is hard to imagine better work, along traditional lines, than that of Felix Aylmer, snuffling and badgering about as Polonius; or of Basil Sydney (who once played a memorable Hamlet, in modern dress) as the corrupt, tormented usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest...
...bothered him. Even at Victoria Barracks last week they still did not bother the old man (he was 80). In fact, he was a problem to modern, Socialist Britain-his records, of course, were lost. Someone suggested he go to Chelsea Royal Hospital, but it admits only veterans recommended for good conduct. "How," asked an official contemplating Campbell's case, "can you recommend good conduct...