Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...victory set the stage for the Crimson's rematch with Dartmouth at 8 p. m. on Wednesday. The freshmen will seek their eighth straight triumph in a 6 p. m. preliminary...
...burned by Egypt's previous attempts at unions with the mercurial states of Syria and Iraq, he was plainly leary of any binding marriage with either Libya or the Sudan. Even if these new "West of Suez" alliances do not presage formal political ties, however, they set the stage for close military and economic cooperation with Libya and the Sudan. On top of that, having lost considerable prestige at the recent Arab summit in Rabat, Nasser was seeking to recoup it amidst the cheering Libyans and Sudanese...
...influenza rarely causes death directly, it kills the infirm aged and very young by secondary diseases such as pulmonary ailments. Except for these complications, antibiotics are useless. Nevertheless, in Britain as elsewhere, there was a widespread demand for them and for even less effective drugs. Vaccination, at this late stage of a continent-wide epidemic, will be wasted on many people who have already been exposed to infection, since the shot takes two to three weeks to build up immunity...
What ever happened to academic conventions where the loudest sound was the rustle of learned papers? Nowadays, scholars stage annual shouting matches at which young professors of the New Left cry for "relevance" while those over 30 feel like 60. The radicals insist that the whole academic world must fight for social change. Old-guard teachers scent heresy-and more important, a disastrous politicization of scholarship...
...asserts itself by very slow degrees. First comes sensuous enjoyment, for he veils each image in the most extraordinary counterfeits of nature. Second come observation, characterization, storytelling - things to notice, in a word. So much so that each of his pictures takes hours to explore. The third and final stage of studying a Bruegel, though, comes when one turns away. For the painting remains in one's mind as experience. One begins to relive what he has given, and only then to recognize it as enduring truth...