Word: equal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of this play depends largely on the abilities of the actress who plays the medium, since she must be able to speak with the voices of three women, a child, and a man. Lillian Aylward is in every way equal to her assignment, and achieves the necessary effects by altering her speech rhythms. The six supporting players, particularly Michael Linenthal as a pompous doctor and Liam Clancy as a skeptical Oxford student, also turn in fine performances...
Under the present system for Council elections, the voter votes preferentially; under the system suggested by the Council, the student votes for several candidates, all votes receiving equal weight. This abolishment of P.R. in the Council needs a two-thirds vote of the student body for adoption...
...report asserted that the Soviet student works longer hours and has a longer school year than his American counterpart. But, the Hungarian felt, they are not better scientists at the end. He held that the American student has an equal basic understanding of his subject...
...Equal Time. As the industrial revolution finally reaches Moslem underdeveloped lands, polygamy is dying out by sheer force of economic circumstances. For it is the Prophet's admonition that a man must provide equal economic benefits for each of his wives. A young Malayan wife explained how she kept her husband from acquiring a second wife. Said she, giggling: "I just demand more of him, in every respect. Then I remind him that the Koran requires him to treat each wife equally...
...turn the page while she is singing one or another of his songs. She is beautiful, and with what elegant sexuality she twists about in tight-curving, fishtail skirts. She is accomplished in a way all her own, seldom raising her voice, never neon-lighting her effects. With equal seductiveness, she spoofs mechanization in Push the Button, or great-men-turned-to-dust in Napoleon, or sings woman-to-woman in Ain't It the Truth or woman-to-man in Take It Slow, Joe. As a much earthier seductress, Josephine Premice jiggles and jabbers with fine mocking verve...