Word: orchard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jenkintown, Pa. CENTERS 56 Colyer, John H. '62 19 6:1 180 Oneonta, N.Y. 57 Eckfeldt, Richard H. '61 20 6:1 195 Paoli, Pa. 59 Kirn, Walter N. '60 21 6:1 195 Akron, Ohio 52 Sullivan, Jeremiah M. '61 20 6:0 211 Old Orchard Beach, Me. 54 Szvetecz, Frank C. '60 21 6:0 204 Bethlehem, Pa. 53 Van Dervoort, R.L. Jr. '62 19 6:0 198 Lincoln, Neb. BACKS 29 Carlin, Philip E. '62 18 5:11 197 Columbus, Ohio 23 Cullen, Jay R. '60 21 5:10 184 Frankfort, Ky. 17 Goldman, Ronald...
...always had its advocates as one of Shaw's most important plays. Certainly Shaw himself meant it to be important. A formidably long work, it had to do, Shaw announced, with "cultured, leisured Europe" before World War I: it was to be a sort of Shavian Cherry Orchard. Thus frankly symbolic, it portrays the kind of people, the ways of living and the states of mind that helped produce the 1914 war. Into the ship-shaped house of an aged English sea captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop, like creatures into...
...whole. In the long final scene, where the immemorial charm of the English countryside is charged with the tensions of an approaching air raid, Shaw achieves for a time a kind of magic. But even here, more in the style of an old morality play than an English Cherry Orchard, it is the dawdling leisure class Shaw spares when the bombs fall, and the thief and the tycoon that he kills...
When the doors of northwest Miami's Orchard Villa Elementary School swung open last month, only 18 pupils trooped in. Rattling about in the nearly empty school, which had been built to accommodate 430, were 14 whites and four Negroes, whose mingling was part of Florida's first attempt at integration. Last week the Dade County school board took action toward ending even that trickle of integration-not, as has happened in other Southern communities, by damming it up, but rather by drowning...
Although 67 white children in the Orchard Villa district had been transferred to segregated schools elsewhere, parents of the remaining 14 were generally satisfied with the integrated setup; indeed, with so few pupils, their children were getting far more attention than those in other schools. But that, said the school board, was too costly, and so it voted to relieve overcrowding at nearby, all-Negro Holmes School by assigning more than 100 Negro children to Orchard Villa, along with Negro teachers to replace the white staff. Seven white children were withdrawn from the school, and the others seemed likely...