Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battlemented castle (vintage 1900) into a luxury hotel and country club and bought into the venture. Called Son Vida (Life Estate), the castle is now an air-conditioned, lavishly plumbed hotel, boasts its own swimming pool, a golf course abuilding, 1,000 acres of well-kept grounds, and a minimum rate ($10) high enough to discourage the cut-rate crowd...
...brute of a horse named Black Comet. Sensitive parents will be glad to know that the whole thing is handled with skill and taste, and that saccharinity-although Grandma Beebe does say once that Paul is "kin to the wild things"-is kept to a minimum...
...Congress delivered to President Kennedy his requested program of new social security benefits that will increase the minimum monthly payment from $33 to $40, allow a man to retire at 62 instead of 65 (but on proportionately smaller payments), and boost widows' shares of their husbands' benefits from...
There is, in short, absolutely nothing in the play that any director could possibly fear. With the proper number of scripts and an equal set of actors--who need do little more than articulate distinctly--good sets and a brisk pace, his succeeds is assured. With these minimum requirements, the comedy must prove almost irresistible; no Shakespeare play could be less dispiriting...
John Hancock's production of As You Like It, the current offering of the Harvard Summer Players certainly fulfills and overfulfills these minimum criteria. Most of the actors both knew their lines and were able to speak them quite clearly. And, of course, not a few of them are a good deal better than that. As Rosalind, Jane Quigley is lively, deft, and confident. If her manly colloquialisms as the youth Ganymede occasionally savor more of the Bronx than of the Home Counties, why it is all spirited and very amusing...