Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked, "when you and your Chinese Communist friends are undermining the peace every day, creating disorder and danger wherever you move? How can you talk of colonialism when you are surrounded by your puppet dictators . . . ?" Then he got down to the matter at hand: "This is no time to say that we can outtalk or outshout Mr. Khrushchev. I want to outdo him-outproduce him." Later, in Nashville, Tenn., Kennedy emphasized a point: "I want to make clear that nothing I am going to say is going to give Mr. Khrushchev the slightest encouragement. He is encouraged enough...
Cronin first met young Armstrong-Jones in 1958 when Cronin was buttling for U.S. Ambassador "Jock" Whitney, and Armstrong-Jones arrived to take some photographs. "I will say at once," wrote Cronin, clearly in the grip of a remembered passion, "that I was taken aback by Mr. Jones's manner of dress. His coat, if memory serves me, was of leather, and unbuttoned; his trousers much too tight, and of an eccentric material." Cronin confesses that "I betrayed my disapproval on my face and in the unenthusiastic way I announced him to the Ambassador...
...Stifling his outrage at this uncouth behavior, Cronin answered stiffly that he must hire two more charwomen to assist the one already employed. "'Three charwomen!" cried Tony. "Why, when I was in digs in Liverpool, Cronin, one charwoman did all the work." Cronin responded icily: "I venture to say, sir, that a royal residence is somewhat different from . . . 'digs' in Liverpool...
...say that prestige is the main reason for the high economic level of scholarship students is to ignore the fact that, as Richard King, Assistant Director of Admissions and Scholarships, put it, "performance in school, on tests, in activities is directly related to the socio-economic status of the parents." The poor student is less likely to apply and often cannot compete well "on paper" with his better prepared and richer rival. Institutions such as Harvard and Yale have taken the lead to reverse this trend, but probably only a massive and costly publicity campaign could increase interest in such...
...David Hays and Peter Wexler, was simple and flexible; Will Steven Armstrong lit it subtly and usefully. (I say subtly for I did not realize how good the lighting was until I thought about it after the performance--which is as it should be.) Marc Blitzstein's music may be good, but the reproduction was so inadequate and tinny that one can only guess. Among other aims attributable to the director, Jack Landau, is the addition of non-Shakespearean material, for the sake of an unfunny vaudeville...