Word: ditherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much word-of-mouth stimulation preceded opening night as to make the evening almost anticlimactic. The rumor was that Oh! Calcutta!, appropriately housed in an off-Broadway theater renamed Eden, would be a nude frontier in permissive theater. In an anticipatory dither, sophisticated and not so sophisticated New Yorkers rushed to the box office to make the show's 41 previews sellouts. They verified the rumor. Oh! Calcutta! is the nudest show outside a nudist camp. Though the top price on the scale is $7.50 for an orchestra seat, scalpers have collected $20 and more. On July...
...catch up to quotas toward the end. Pravda cited a Tomsk factory that now turns out some 60 fans a day during the first week of the month, then heats up to 200 or more in the last - with a corresponding drop in quality. In the last-minute dither to meet quotas, workers may lose their extra day altogether by having to work overtime. Even then, especially in heavy industries, the extra effort may be canceled out by gummed-up delivery systems that stand idle on weekends...
...since Olympian Bill Bradley fled Princeton three years ago has the Ivy League been in such a dither. A week from Saturday his University--perennial League champions--clashes with powerful upstart Columbia for the loop lead and national prominence...
...talking with the press was that we did not, and do not, represent Harvard University or any definite constituency within it. It is highly doubtful that anyone involved feels qualified to speak even for the others in this small group. We have all assumed that the right not to dither, but instead to formulate and express one's opinion carefully, in the proper context, is an important aspect of the right of free speech itself...
...freshman at the Georgetown University School of Nursing, Luci is uncertain whether she will work on for a degree after her marriage. "All I know," she says, "is that I'll go where my husband goes." Meanwhile she faces a dither of prenuptial parties and arrangements. The wedding is planned as a "family event" at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Last week the White House announced that Luci Johnson's maid of honor will be Older Sister Lynda Bird-who, in denying rumors that she would soon marry Actor George Hamilton, was making Page...