Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast and staff of the Harvard Summer Theatre Group, formed this summer to bring student drama to the Summer School, has undergone difficulties peculiar to a small one-shot organization. Two of their members here relate some of the problems besetting their first play, Antigone...
...explanation, he is not worth explaining to. He lives in a Regency house near Frome in the county of Somerset, 100 miles from his office at Punch, that venerable and sometimes humorous magazine, where he functions as a slyly discursive book reviewer. "We [the British] are a very peculiar, very odd people," says Powell, looking down at his subject matter in the manner of the legendary clubman who liked to sit in the window of the Carlton on dismal days in order to have the pleasure of "seeing it rain on the damned people...
...their appeal begins to fade as Israel changes. Youngsters growing up on the desert feel more at home with shish kebab and Arab bread than with mother's gefüllte fish and apple strudel. Half the newcomers of recent years are Oriental Jews who never shared the peculiar Zionist and Socialist vision of Ben-Gurion's generation, and not even the old lawgiver can keep half their young folk down on the farm for more than the first year or two. The Sabras, the native-born Israelis who led the Sinai war, show signs of wanting...
...Baby-Kisser. Periodically, Benevolent Despot Salazar permits Portugal to vote for a rubber-stamp National Assembly or a tame President. The elections are always won by Salazar's National Union Party, and the rules are peculiar: 1) the opposition may campaign for only 30 days, 2) traditionally, the opposition presidential candidates withdraw before election day, 3) anyone who is in opposition must submit to being labeled Communist. 4) Portuguese law firmly prohibits demonstrations of any kind in the streets...
...North American Air Defense Command, and 4) RCAF-ADC, the Royal Canadian Air Force home defense unit. NORAD's cumbersome components must answer not only to Partridge, but to their own service Chiefs of Staff in Washington and Ottawa. And the service chiefs, under NORAD's peculiar charter, can pull fighting units and equipment out of NORAD with little or no reference to NORAD's requirements...