Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealth of accomplished architecture styles deluding you into the past. But up and around the corner, on a busier street, sets a building simple as reality, and as unavoidable as 1959. That is Prospect Club, its name a wistful mark of its exclusion. Prospect has always been the poor club, the wonk co-op club without servants, but last year it held an open bicker so that the University might have a hundred per cent club membership, Prospect became the catalyst in a big change--the biggest in seventy-five years--in the Princeton formula. After Prospect threw itself open...
Implications of the Massachusetts election returns are great. Kennedy's record showing definitely pushed him to the forefront of the Democratic party ranks. With Harriman's defeat in New York and the relatively poor showing of Governor Williams in Michigan, Kennedy has emerged from this election as the number one contender for the 1960 Presidential nomination...
...been known to refuse to take a solo curtain call after the third act of Manon Lescaut because "it is the tenor's act." Her patience with her fans is apparently limitless: she will sit hour after hour backstage after exhausting performances, dutifully signing autographs ("Poor things," she murmurs, "poor things"). She still regards public figures outside opera with the awe of a country girl on her first trip to the city. Several years ago she heard about the "Night in Monte Carlo" ball at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, at which Prince Rainier was to celebrate his engagement...
...pouring out his enmity toward both Britain and the Free French-as well as the Nazis -during World War II. Tried after the liberation for collaborating in word if not in deed, Béraud was sentenced to death. General de Gaulle commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. In poor health, Béraud was released after five years...
...wealth of choice makes it possible for the single-minded consumer to buy a car or appliance that is practically custom-made-but he inevitably pays for the privilege. "Imagine the poor woman who walks into our refrigerator showroom to buy a refrigerator," says Maurice Leifler, executive sales director of Chicago's Polk Brothers discount chain. "She looks around and sees 55 different models. Where does she start?" The buyer is so baffled that she often does...