Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week's other dramatic standout was one of those ventures that seemed calculated never to come off. But it did. To blunt the sophisticated Philip Barry dialogue for living-room consumption, and to pick as heroine an actress so typed for guppylike roles as Dorothy McGuire, suggested in advance that it might be a bad idea to revive the 15-year-old Philadelphia Story for TV. But on CBS's Best of Broadway, Actress McGuire made an excellent Tracy Lord, tawny and yare, as the script said she should be. To help her through the comic...
...Maybe things would pick...
...Bonus for Votes. Several political inventions have helped spawn Uruguay's many factions. The most wondrous is the "double simultaneous ballot," which lets the voter pick the party he wants to win the major offices and at the same time choose candidates to fill these offices from the particular faction that he favors within the party. Also making for splintering is a freehanded provision of the law, designed to cover campaign expenses, that requires the government to pay each group $1.30 in advance for every vote it expects to get. (After the election, they have to pay back...
Last year, he said that more selective admissions and no enrollment increases would be unfortunate, "not only because ... admissions techniques are not sufficiently sensitive always to pick the 'right' ones, but even more because such a policy would lessen the total weight of the private college in our total educational landscape...
Bulger, who was Crimson high scorer with 12 points, kept the varsity in the game for the first half, pulling it up from a nine-point deficit, 19-10, with eight points, including three long sets. But if the crowd had to pick a local here, it would be the spirited Lowenfels...