Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...editorial said: "Mr. Buckley's broadcast is running as a "Crime" because it manages to advocate, in a compact 15 minutes, most of the bad things that could happen to American education. . . It calmly calls for student indoctrination, one-sided curricula, and alumni regulation of what a University may teach...
...Buckley's broadcast is running as a Crime because it manages to advocates, in a compact 15 minutes, most of the bad things that could happen to American education. It calmly calls for student indoctrination, one-sided curricula, and alumni regulation of what a University may teach, all carefully wrapped up as a "responsibility to guide students...
Gian-Carlo Menotti had good reason for counting every patron. For production in the close academic air of Columbia University, he had composed a compact little two-act opera called The Medium, and it had gone on Broadway. It was a grim and eerie story of an old faker who finally, at one of her seances, feels the touch of one of the spirits she has pretended to reach for so many years, and consequently goes mad. It was hardly a cheery subject; moreover, it was all 'opera. Every line and word was sung, and its music yielded nothing...
...Consul, Menotti's first three-acter, has a plot that is just as drab as The Medium's: the story of a desperate woman in a police state who commits suicide when her last attempt to get a visa fails. It is longer and not so compact, but it packs more than The Medium's share of melodramatic punch. It opened on Broadway with a $100,000 advance sale; by last week all seats were sold out through June...
...wave of applause was rolling slowly up the hillside with Kee Young Ham. Compact, muscular, dead-pan, he ran easily in his white trunks and jersey, staring in front of him, apparently ignoring the shouted messages from the sedan. He was gone as quickly and unobtrusively as he had come. The boys with the water followed, and craning our necks we could see the Korean dousing his head. After he had passed, everything was exactly as it had been a moment before, and it seemed much too long before the second runner, Yun Chil Choi, slipped by in another formal...