Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rather than watch Agnes de Mille's ballet, Fall River Legend, New York Times Dance Critic Clive Barnes once wrote, "I would prefer to play pinochle, which is all the more surprising since I have never played pinochle in my life." In the line of duty, however, Barnes attended another performance of the ballet (about the ax-wielding Lizzie Borden) and wrote a glowing review of Marcia Haydée, who was guest dancer with the American Ballet Theater. Unpleased was Ballerina Sallie Wilson, the ABT regular who has danced the lead role impeccably for many seasons without getting...
...York City boosters as Polly Bergen, Robert Merrill, Ruby Dee, Celeste Holm and Guy Lombardo. They all assembled at a recording studio to perform one number, a snappily chauvinistic tune called Mad About You Manhattan. Sample lyric: "A double-decker bus is fun in Piccadilly Square/ But I prefer a subway car to take me everywhere." The idea is that the record will make money for the Citizens Committee for New York City, which is concerned with improving services in the debt-ridden city...
Despite the large number of problem children, there are no psychologists on the school's staff, because Hyde teachers prefer to "use our gut feelings." When that approach fails, Gauld has referred students to Richard Evans, a psychiatrist in Brunswick, Me. Like many parents of Hyde students, Evans is willing to give the school the benefit of the doubt. Says he: "Frankly, I'm puzzled. But ordinary methods don't work with the kinds of kids going to Hyde. The school does make a real effort to reach these children. It is doing something no one else...
...with hypocrisy. From now on, I'm going to say it publicly and bluntly: 'I prefer the Israelis to the Palestinians...
Whether Powell's dual role as adviser and spokesman will be playable in Washington is a question. Yet many reporters say they would prefer him to the incumbent, Ron Nessen. And even Powell's critics are pleased at his ability to be frank with Carter, whom other aides revere as being above criticism. Listening to Carter promise a crowd that his staff would not exercise power as arrogantly as Richard Nixon's, Powell scoffed, "He just lost my vote." But then no man is a hero to his gofer...