Word: mooting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning to Group 20, you say it "in the opinion of most is the best young theater group in America." Whether it is or not superior to, say, the five-year-old American Shakespeare Festival is a moot question; but we all recognize it to be a splendid company...
...throw this down a gut and expect ready digestion. But to Ernie Pandish identity became equated with money, and I don't think I'm that way. He's traded off certain values; Rod Serling hasn't. It's a moot point what will happen...
About five years ago, the continued existence of the College of Arts and Sciences was almost a moot question. Enrollment was continuing to skid badly, and it was rumored that a few of the faculty were seriously thinking of walking away from the campus. A group of "Young Turks" was vitally interested in taking positive steps to examine and correct the situation, and the older liberal arts men, among them the retiring dean, turned the task over to them...
Soulages and de Stael have become particularly 'noticed in this country for their distinct, striking idioms. Whether these painters are, by and large, worthy and significant successors to the Picasso-Matisse era or whether their contempt fails to match their expansive delivery, is a moot question. I prefer the latter theory but, in the best tradition of La Musee D'Art Moderne de Paris, we must let time take its course...
...question of whether vaccination against tuberculosis should be extended in the U.S., long moot because of doctors' skepticism about the vaccine, is up for searching reexamination. Columbia University's Dr. H. McLeod Riggins declares that the U.S. has failed to put into full use "a scientifically proved vaccine" against TB because of "a false sense of security." Reason: the dramatic drop (of 76%) in the TB death rate since "wonder drugs" were found to treat the disease after...