Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Production should begin to pick up considerably six months from now, when meager inventories restricted by the present business inhibitions are exhausted, they said...
Cott's WNTA-TV began with a wallop. It offered quality films (The Snake Pit, Laura) three nights a week, showed them on a movie theater's continuous-program basis from 7:30 to 12:30, which let the viewer pick his time and go to bed early. In the afternoons Cott scheduled natural-science documentaries, highbrow interviews with such distinguished men as Poet Robert Frost and Dr. Jonas Salk, rebroadcasts of historic news telecasts, e.g., the famed Army-McCarthy hearings. And for its live ventures, WNTA introduced a weekly Art Ford's Jazz Party in which...
...artist most people think he will become, Van could be either helped or handicapped by his Moscow triumph. It has placed him in a position to command big fees and security; it has given him the freedom to play as little or as much as he pleases, and to pick his repertory. But at the same time it has cast him in a unique musical role. "He may be the first man in history," says a friend, "to be a Horowitz, Liberace and Presley all rolled into one." What some friends worry about is that in the easy flush...
...public's loss," cried Critic Coe, "is the more ironic because of all recent Presidents, President Eisenhower has done less for the theater than any other. Only once has President Eisenhower been inside a legitimate theater since he entered the White House. That was in New York to pick up his wife after My Fair Lady. He saw the musical's last 15 minutes. But last night at the White House some of the top hits' leading players were willing to disappoint their paying customers to perform before a President of the United States...
Many instructors will not consider undergraduate petitions, in order to keep number low and quality high. In the English Department especially, however, the undergraduate is generally able to pick and choose. Of the 16 conference courses primarily for graduates, eleven have undergraduate attendance. In several cases, the juniors and seniors in the course far out-number the graduates; this is especially noticeable in Professor Bush's poetry courses. Modern Irish prose and poetry also attracts about 75 per cent undergrads...