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...apartheid threshed out, said: "If no one else raises the question. I think I shall have to." Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the icy-eyed Prime Minister of South Africa, insisted to newsmen that apartheid (literally, apartness) was simply another name for neighborliness. Britain's Harold Macmillan tried to construct a typical British compromise. It was the nation of South Africa that belonged in the Commonwealth, he argued; the Verwoerd government and its apartheid policies might be only temporary. Besides, Commonwealth members should not concern themselves with the internal affairs of other members...
Other composers since Wagner have sought to construct a similar classification. Although Ralph Vaughan Williams' Riders to the Sea is undoubtedly a music drama in the Wagnerian sense, it probably derives more directly from Mussorgsky or Debussy (whose Pelleas et Melisande it most closely resembles...
...that in a few lessons, without the benefit of rules of grammar, he can promote one to a state in which "it's almost like learning the grammar of your own language." I make no such pretentious claim for my course. You have taken halves of two sentences to construct a statement which does not represent my views. The effect has been rather to make me look like a proponent of Russian-in-5-easy-lessons. Learning Russian well is difficult and time-consuming whether done in Slavic A, in my course, or anywhere else...
Dunster House will construct a science library next year to honor its retiring Master, Gordon M. Fair. At the annual President's Dinner last night. President Pusey announced plans for the Fair Memorial Library and launched an $8000 drive for funds...
...School has planned to construct only one building with Program money, the Countway Library of Medicine. The Program allocated $7.5 million for the library and has already passed the amount specified for the modern structure...