Word: com
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Yates's Time also concerned itself with education, concentrating on Eton, Oxford and the fashionable philosophy of the day, sport (the decline of the British racehorse) and theater (an account of a rehearsal at the Comédie Française with Sarah Bernhardt, muffled in a jacket to protect her from stage drafts, explaining the proper nuances of her lines). For women, there were articles like "How To Become Beautiful" with such admonitions as "The first cosmetic is, after all, ordinary soap" and "As for that relic of barbarism-the tinting of the nails-it is useless...
...Paris, Littérateur André (The Counterfeiters) Gide, 81, motored to the Comédie Française to sit in a red velvet seat and mastermind every rehearsal of the first stage adaptation of one of his novels, Lafcadio's Adventures, written 36 years ago. A satire about a motiveless murder, the play is due to open next week...
...Utilization of Formosa by a military power hostile to the U.S. may either counterbalance or overshadow the strategic importance of the central and southern flank of the U.S. frontline positions. Formosa in the hands of such a hostile power could be com pared to an unsinkable aircraft carrier and submarine tender, ideally located to accomplish offensive strategy, and at the same time checkmate defensive or counteroffensive operations by friendly forces based on Okinawa and the Philippines...
Last week Pastor Fehsenfeld filed a motion for a new trial. He had done nothing illegal, he claimed, and the Santa Claus incident wasn't worth all that com motion. But he had a point to make on the subject, and he made it again: "Some people are more interested in teaching their children there is a Santa Claus and an Easter bunny than teaching about the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection. To teach your children it is a fact that there is a Santa Claus...
...Southern higher education. Now, for the first time, the South will share its facilities, sending medical, dental and veterinary medicine students wherever the best schools, public or private, may be. Thus a university can afford to be strong in one field without wasting its substance in trying to com pete in all the others...