Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Serving on the administrative committee with Kennedy are Gordon M. Fair, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Engineering, and Albert Haertlein '16, associate dean of Applied Science...
...Royall Tyler, who speaks French translations of American jazz slang. What he symbolizes beyond the result of Damon's frantic creativeness, is a puzzle--and an example of Miss Lang's obtuseness. Nevertheless, Tyler senses the impressionistic mood of the evening and, in a small part, acts accordingly with fair success...
There is one certainty about the New York election; it will not be decided on the personal appeal of the Candidates. Both Harriman and Ives are as colorless as they are capable. Harriman, who held a string of diplomatic and cabinet posts under the New and Fair Deals, is too timid and too patrician to campaign effectively. He was chosen as nominee partly because he could write his own campaign check (his grandfather built the Union Pacific), and partly because his success as a businessman would attract conservative voters...
...economic complaints have cropped up that the Republicans have not been able to quell. Unemployment, for example, is up to 250,000. But most important, the Democrats have succeeded in convincing the New York City voters that the upstate-dominated Republican legislature is cheating the city out of its fair share of social-welfare grants. In short, the Republican formula is weak this year. If enough Catholic voters forget that Harriman was part of the "twenty years of treason," and remember that he will increase their school and compensation grants, they may not take their usual walk from the Democratic...
...film has its suspense and even a modicum of mystery, and surely more than a fair share of good, snappy lines. But what most distinguishes it are the fantastic creations of Messrs. Price and Webb. They, much more than the much-heralded theme song, are the haunting quality of Laura...