Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...predicted rank list and the test scores are an accurate measure of academic ability, they do not exist in a vacuum. They are even less 'fair' measures of basic intelligence than an I.Q. test. Richard King emphasizes the fact that "performance in school, on tests, in activities is directly related to the socio-economic status of parents." Thus, as Harvard gets more selective, the applicant from the depressed area gets passed over. Not only is the poor boy not likely to apply, King points out, but he is not likely to compete well "on paper" with his richer, better...
After a short stint as managing editor of Vanity Fair beginning in 1920, he trained his sights on a number of topics and reported his findings to The New Yorker, Encounter, and several other periodicals...
...Fair Lady in CINCINNATI, Two for the Seesaw in MINNEAPOLIS and The Music Man in CHICAGO do justice to the Broadway originals...
...Fair Lady, The Music Man and West Side Story are three modern musical-comedy classics...
...that glitters is not gold, and there is a fair amount of dross in this anthology of the great comic moments of the silent films. Considered purely as entertainment, The Golden Age of Comedy proves the thesis that movies are better than ever; a few scenes of undeniable hilarity (almost all of them shown in the preview last week) are surrounded by interminable stretches of "classic" but boring sequences...