Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many weeks go by when we feel as though there is no place for us in the adult world. This article helped to give us the identity for which we search, though sometimes fail to find...
...Gustave Charpentier's Louise, the lead soprano suddenly collapsed after the second act. Panic-stricken, the director asked Mary if she could fill in. Though she had never sung on a stage before, much less with an orchestra, she pluckily replied: "Have no fear. I shall not fail." She hastily pinned her 98 lbs. into a costume several sizes too large and boldly stepped onstage. She caused such a sensation in the role that she subsequently sold out 100 performances...
...turn to professional fund-raising firms, the best of which already are too busy to take on any more schools this year. The pros candidly tell a college what it can realistically hope to raise, usually scale down inflated goals, since it is psychological suicide for a drive to fail. Before mapping out a campaign, Manhattan's John Price Jones Co., Inc., a firm of fund-raising consultants, prepares a detailed statement-sometimes 300 pages long -of the college's specific needs and underlying educational philosophy, a "case" that can be broken down to stir the interest...
...agreed last month that a free, pass-fail fifth course for all upperclassmen was a good idea "in principle...
These students should be able to drop the course after a few weeks without being fined for it, Edward T. Wilcox, CEP secretary, said yesterday. On the other hand, preventing students from dropping a pass-fail course late in the term will ensure that they take it seriously, he said...