Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returned to the Festival to tackle the tremendous title role of Macbeth and to traverse it triumphantly. His success is all the more marked when one looks back to the Festival's previous bout with this play, in which Pat Hingle's Macbeth proved to be a foghorned fiasco...
...Success, One Fiasco...
...ends the year midway through the term of its third chairman with a few irons in the fire and a long list of where to begin again in September. Its one unqualified success and one fiasco of near classic proportions say much about the committee...
Their confidence was at its lowest ebb at the beginning of this term: the memory of the breakfast subsidy fiasco still rankled. Starting early in February, two months before housing decisions were to be made, girls began having appointments with Mrs. Frederick Bolman, the dean of residence, to ask about apartment living. Many were opposed to a lottery system, which had been used for this year's seniors. They were put off by Mrs. Bolman, who told them that the procedure had not been set up because the administration was busy with admissions meetings for the class...
Since the Wallace fiasco, the two major parties have increased their already amply tight grip on American Politics. Except on the Congressional level, recent third party efforts have been soundly crushed. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. in New York, Dick Gregory in Chicago, David Frost in New Jersey, and Thomas Boylston Adams in Massachusetts have gone nowhere...