Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...promise to God that their ancestors made centuries back. In the 1600s, when the Black Plague was sweeping the country, killing thousands, the people of this village turned to their only help-they dropped to their knees and promised God that if the plague was spared them, they would present the drama of the Christ's Passion every ten years. This is what they are doing. They aren't striving for the perfection of Hollywood with all its top stars and glitter. Why then do you criticize as if this were Hollywood? This article gave me an aching...
...captain's cabin of the U.S.S. Observation Island off Cape Canaveral one afternoon, when an exultant Rear Admiral William Raborn Jr. congratulated his skippers on the first successful firing of a Polaris missile from a submerged submarine, only one newsman was present. He was Miami Bureau Chief William Shelton, one of only two reporters who have covered every major missile shot in the Cape's history...
Next Thursday, Aug. 4, Oscar Brand and Joan Baez will present a program of folksongs. Miss Baez' work was recently cited by Time magazine; Brand has been called "fresh, pert, earthy and alive...
...Wang, Reader in the Philosophy of Mathematics at Oxford, this week injected a note of caution into present optimism concerning the feats of computing machines...
Essentially, he wrote the same novel again and again. It is always the tale of a man musing over his past to find an explanation for the present, searching for some way to break the accidental but inexorable timetable of his life. But there is no way out. H. M. Pulham, Esq., the caste-conscious Harvard snob, resigns himself to life in a narrowing circle of middle-aged Bostonian complacency (" 'If I had had the guts' -I sometimes find myself thinking, and a part of the old restlessness comes back"). Melville Goodwin, U.S.A. tries to break...