Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dealing with Twain's Huckleberry Finn in the story theatre manner is a much more ambitious project. It's rather like going at a glacier with a pick axe. Not that Twain's story is unmanageable. It's simply that its familiar episodes continually threaten to overwhelm the staging techniques that Bergreen uses to bring the ungraceful narrative to life. Few of his scenes take on an independence of their own and, as a consequence, the audience is left viewing something that looks more like conventional drama than improvisation (and more like high school pageantry than anything else) without experiencing...
...seemed clear (from a questionnaire on first-year grading) that there is strong support among first-year students for a mandatory pass-fail system. Now we may have to pick up the idea of changing the present system by getting people to elect the pass-fail reporting option in mass," Reimer said...
...more slick maneuverings than there are on the court. The N.B.A.'s Buffalo Braves, for example, picked 7-ft. Elmore Smith of Kentucky State as their first draft choice despite the fact that the Carolina Cougars had done the same in the A.B.A. draft. Presumably the Braves had got wind of a deal involving the Cougars and another 7-ft. center, All-America Jim McDaniels of Western Kentucky. If the Cougars landed McDaniels, the Braves apparently reasoned, they would give up Smith without a fight. Sure enough, the day after the N.B.A. draft, the Cougars signed McDaniels...
...someone is going to put a wet diaper in your hand, pick Sandy Dennis to do it. The girl makes it seem like some sort of unpublicized honor. A delectable scatterbrain, she appears to be permanently stalled somewhere between bed and breakfast. Sandy is one of life's winning losers. Her eyes imply that the tear ducts were installed first, and her voice box quivers with a heart broken in transit. Perhaps she is every father's illusion of a vulnerable daughter. Count her a big funny plus in a small funny British comedy import called...
Another plan is for the Government to preserve the privacy of its dependent contractors but give them new kinds of work. Supporters of the idea suggest that the U.S. should pick out one of its seemingly insoluble problems, such as air pollution or the lack of mass transportation, and instruct an aerospace company to attack it in the same fashion as the ten-year moon project. The company would take on the problem, separate its components, analyze ways to deal with them, project a schedule for solution and build some of the hardware. Says Assistant Secretary Harold Finger...