Word: choses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Idlers chose this play. They have some good amateur talent, but "Disengaged" proved a poor vehicle...
...though the delayed Winthrop election showed that ballots can be counted accurately when care is taken, the whole system of Council nominations and elections has become absurdly complicated. In class elections less than half of the candidates picked by the nominating committees chose to run. For the House elections there were nomination meetings in every House, but only one of these managed to achieve a quorum, and that by means of a beer party. In all but one of the other Houses unchallenged minorities in insufficiently publicized meetings took charge of nominations...
...have much use for his father. Socially and politically, father Hermann was an opportunist. After Ralph's mother had divorced him in 1944, father Hermann managed a retrial which declared his wife guilty, hounded her and their daughter out of Dresden. When he married again, Hermann chose blowzy, peroxide-blonde Trude Mirtsching, a stenographer with excellent Soviet connections. A year later, conniving Hermann had worked up from a minor political boss to be Deputy Chairman of the Economic Commission, forerunner of the East German government...
...formula is simple: "I take less money and get the kind of contract I want." He is probably the only musician ever to extort a contract from Hollywood (for two scripts in 1947) which provided that not one word, nor one note of his music, if he chose to write any, was to be changed. To nobody's surprise, no movie ever came of it. He has been embarrassingly direct with potential backers, too. At money-raising auditions for The Consul last winter, Menotti, who believes "opera should be an art, not an investment," almost queered the deal...
...election held after the game, the Yardlings chose Roger Alexander Martin of New York City and Strauss Hall as captain. Martin has been a mainstay of the Crimson defense all season...