Word: advent
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...production requires the dedicated support of a large number of people who receive no compensation except satisfaction in having been part of a creative venture; the selection of the play should be a part of this process. A roster of the plays presented before the advent of the Loeb and solely on student initiative shows a variety and quality that leave no cause for now depriving interested students of the right of choice; for the committee to usurp this right under a cloak of doing otherwise is both unwise and dishonest...
...Soviet Union had been pointedly stepping up its propaganda support to the Algerian rebels, while Peking trumpeted promises of military aid to them. The U.N. debate on Algeria, scheduled for early next month, was sure to create strains with the French Community nations in Africa. And with the advent of Jack Kennedy, who three years ago publicly spoke up for Algerian independence, De Gaulle suspected that he could no longer count on Washington's tolerance. The only hope was to drive for some kind of end to the six-year-old bloodletting in Algeria before this sea of troubles...
...this royal advent that sets the author's characters in violent and generally entertaining motion. (The characters are named Bimbo and Bunny and Cuckoo and Buddha, as they always are in British light fiction. No one knows why, just as no one knows why characters in U.S. ladies' fiction are all named Brett and Brick and Brack and Blade.) The tizzies in which the islanders become involved may be trivial-can anyone really fret about the problems of a cuckolded duke if he is called Droopy?-but they are enjoyed by all hands, including the author...
Pressure for a theatre began to build again after the Second World War. Committees professors, reports, and trials all advocated building a home burgeoning theatre activities. Little opened until the advent of Pusey in Unlike Lowell and Conant, the new president actively desired a theatre and backed fund-raising for the His encouragement bore fruit June 1957, when Loeb's gift of $1 was announced...
John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his crew proved at Los Angeles that they are a political team worthy of respect. Despite Lyndon Johnson's belated drive, despite the boisterous demonstrations for Adlai Stevenson, the efficient, machinelike Kennedy team had the nomination won before the first gavel bang. Heralding the advent of a new political breed-youngish, polished, businesslike technicians with culture and wit, the Kennedy men made the convention oratory seem superfluous and the floor demonstrations archaic...