Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down Broadway theaters and replace them with parking lots and office buildings. Producers are going to the movies or the stock market or off-Broadway (where, oddly enough, ticket prices are now more or less at Broadway levels and the quick Broadway-style flop is becoming more and more common). A few years ago a producer had about a one-in-nine chance of coming up with a hit; now the odds are closer to twenty...
...network job over the prostrate bodies of rivals and girls. Inevitably, show business insiders recognized in Stone at least a passing resemblance to James T. Aubrey Jr., 51. As president of CBS-TV for more than five years, Aubrey ruled with a high hand and a low common denominator of programming (The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction) that for most of that time won CBS leadership in the ratings. After hours, Aubrey said of himself: "I don't pretend to be any saint. If anyone wants to indict me for liking pretty girls, I guess I'm guilty." Partly...
Welfare assistance should be given only temporarily and on a minimal level, Parker stated. "It is only common sense to realize that there is a limit to what I can do for another." he said, "regardless of my good intentions...
Bread-a phenomenon which has become so common to all of us is often taken for granted...
Marjorie C. Angell 71-separated from the University last spring and ordered. like Berg, not to appear on University property-was fired this week from her job washing dishes at Harkness Common when officials discovered her identity...