Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Despite uneven acting styles and some amateurish makeup, which displayed wild, fake jungles of beard, the whole added up to an exciting show, with much credit going to the program's unobtrusive but incisive commentator, Harvard University's Dean of Arts and Sciences, McGeorge Bundy, making his TV debut. A cold, well-spoken orator of his own words, Bundy concluded: "The presidency is a superb instrument of action, and it takes a man to wield it . . . He shall have power-but only with our help...
Intuition v. Reason. In Japan, Koestler observed, the techniques of Zen "show remarkable psychological insight and produce some equally remarkable results." But the results are far from remarkable when Zen is exported overseas and seeded among Western intellectuals with an entirely different cultural background. "They tried hard to obey its command: 'Let your mind go and become like a ball in a mountain stream'; the result was a punctured tennis ball surrounded by garbage, bouncing down the current from a burst water main...
...Centennial, a duplicate of the Rodin Museum in France and an excellent institute of applied science named for Benjamin Franklin. Covering 4,000 acres, it is one of the world's biggest municipal parks. With all that, Fairmount's most appealing distinction is as an outstanding outdoor show of sculpture- a vast art museum without walls...
...Albany Knickerbocker News for $3,850,000, giving the chain a monopoly in New York's capital city. In Baltimore, where the News-Post ranks behind the Sun papers, Hearst has earmarked $5,000,000 for expansion of plant and production facilities. "You've got to show the community that you have faith in your paper," says a Hearst executive. "If you have, the community will have...
...says Copland, "eats up three years of your time; then everything's decided in one night." His work in progress: a chamber piece for nine solo strings. The orchestration was obvious, says Copland, from the moment "I got the material"-and he points gravely to the ceiling, to show that it was a gift from above...