Word: contention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attain to the age of reason without having seen or heard or read Earnest, a visit to the local performance would not be a bad idea, simply because Wilde's masterpiece is too good to miss. But the rest of us would do just as well to remain content with our memories, because Repertory Boston is not distinguishing itself in its current production...
...them regularly every week during their travels abroad. . . TIME is able to offer this unique service to its large traveling public thanks to its strong position in international publishing. There are four international editions of TIME - Canada, Latin America, Atlantic and Pacific - each containing virtually the same editorial content as our domestic edition. (Early this year the international editions passed the half-million circulation mark with an estimated total readership of well over 2,000,000 in 120 countries...
...Jerry or Darlin' Cora or Tol' My Captain. He goes on from there to shouters (Lead Man Holler), love songs (I Do Adore Her), songs of thanksgiving (Merci Bon Dieu), an Israeli Hora (Hava Nageela). Belafonte has developed a remarkable emotional pantomime to match the content of his songs. In John Henry, he hunches his tall, lithe body (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.) in a half crouch, knots his fists, launches into the verses with teeth clenched and a spasmodic toss of his head...
...says, in the way executive agencies are related to the legislature and to the entire political process. This is, once again, the problem of the specialist and the general politician. Although he says it is impossible to separate the machinery for the formulation and execution of policy from the content of policy, it is plain his chief interest lies in the former sphere. His personal political predilections, unlike those of some of his new colleagues, are totally irrelevant to his work. Price and the School he now heads are in a sense mechanics and engineers of public administration...
Hohen's excellently placed drives controlled the match and for the most part he was content either to let Hamm make the errors or draw him out of position for easy put-away shots...