Word: k
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lawrence K. Ekpebu '60, another member of the committee, said the charges of corruption in the election "had made a very bad impression on the student body." The election, he said, "was not clean of infractions," but stated that the matter of what to do about it was for future Councils to decide...
...Leonard K. Nash '39, associate professor of Chemistry, said he had been asked to be a sponsor, but had declined. "I didn't want to take responsibility for a group whose activities might degenerate into fun and games," he explained...
...National Democratic Headquarters on Washington's K Street, a delighted yelp went up when early returns from Connecticut's six congressional races were posted. Democrats had hoped to take four of the state's six seats; instead they scored a grand slam and hauled in all six. And as the evening wore on, similar gains across the U.S. gave Democrats the bright view of a strengthened hold on the House, which they dominated last session by a majority of 35 votes. Probable Democratic gain in this year's election: 35 to 40 votes...
During the 3½ years that William K. Zinsser reviewed films for the New York Herald Tribune, he habitually criticizedt the movies with a boldness commendable but rare in his breed. If Zinsser thought a movie was poor, he said so. A Farewell to Arms was, in his view, "vulgar to the point of nausea." He found South Pacific to be "arty and distracting." Ten days after this last comment ran in the Herald Tribune, the disrespectful Zinsser was no longer reviewing movies; he was writing editorials...
...York, many newspapers have long since been softened to critical jelly by such threats and/or reprisals from producers and exhibitors. The tone of a review in the trade papers bears a remarkable relationship to advertising volume. Among the daily Los Angeles press, only the loftily independent Times Reviewer Philip K. Scheuer bucks a tendency among movie reviewers to play the role of "gee whiz" movie fans rather than movie judges...