Word: ado
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Colorado Shakespeare Festival, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.: A company of 20 students from colleges in the U S and England perform Measure for Measure, Richard III and Much Ado About Nothing. Through...
...ELECTORAL-VOTE SYSTEM COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC. Under a 1956 proposal made by then-Senator John F. Kennedy, the rigmarole of naming electors would be abolished. The candidate who got the most popular votes in each state would get that state's full bundle of electoral votes without any ado. Kennedy's plan would perpetuate the system, but tidy it up a bit, getting rid of the rituals and forestalling such aberrations as the South's unpledged elector movement...
...decision splintered the court even more than usual. Only Chief Justice Earl Warren joined Goldberg without ado. Hugo Black and William O. Douglas went along, but added their own farther-reaching view that "Congress has no power" to deprive a native-born citizen of citizenship. William J. Brennan Jr. wrote a separate concurring opinion. The other four Justices dissented, in two separate opinions, basically on the ground that, as Potter Stewart put it, loss of citizenship is not "punishment in the constitutional sense of that term," but an effect of a "regulatory measure" enacted to deal with a "basic problem...
There was still much ado about the nothing worn (above the waist, anyhow) by frail Model Christina Paolozzi, 22, in a full-page Richard Avedon photograph published by Harper's Bazaar in the January issue. The clothes-horsing magazine identified Manhattan-born Christina as a "Contessa" (she insists she is not), proudly admired "the classic spirit, abhorring the demure and falsely modest." But the photo was agitating the female press corps to its foundations. Tartly advised Syndicated Columnist Inez Robb: "The excursion into overexposure has unwittingly proved that not diamonds but clothes are a girl's best friend...
...then, apparently should conduct investigations, write reports, and raise questions. But this is what the old Council has done. Why should such action be any more popular among the students in the future? We are seemingly led to one of two possible conclusions. Either the recent turmoil was much ado about nothing, and the only real problem was the old Council's personnel; or, a student council is superfluous at Harvard...