Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Soviets would greatly prefer Brandt to Strauss-who they suspect will want nuclear weapons for West Germany-the Russians fear that any overtures to Bonn would enrage their most loyal allies, the East Germans and Poles. Such a departure would also ruin their rationale for having intervened in Czechoslovakia to crush an alleged West German plot to pull that country into the West's orbit. As last week's events in Czechoslovakia showed, the Soviets may need an excuse to remain there for some time...
Just a Corporation. Although they occasionally play 20th century composers like Bartók and Hindemith, they prefer the traditional repertory-as did the Budapest. "Let someone else be adventurous," says Soyer. "It is more important to do the masterpieces...
Promises, Promises--Burt Bacharach and Hal David write some of the best and most innovative songs around, but perhaps you might prefer to buy the original cast album rather than go to this somewhat unsatisfactory distillation by Neil Simon of Billy Wilder-I. A. L. Diamond's "The Apartment." At the SHUBERT, W. 44th...
...substantial number of Harvard undergraduates (somewhere between 10 and 50 per cent) would prefer to live in all-male houses, and it seems to be assumed that after the merger some of the Harvard Houses and perhaps a complex of Radcliffe dorms would remain unmixed. The problem of providing what Dean Ford calls 'a dignified choice," between the two kinds of housing will have to be worked out though, as well the difficulty of determining which houses go coed and which stay all-male House assignments have always been somewhat arbitrary and when some of the living quarters become clearly...
...Perhaps, as often happens with those who deal in the intricacies of the English language, the only major objection to the article is a semantic one. Students who continually work closely with their professors on an individual basis sometimes prefer to term their complaints about departmental policy "suggestions" rather than "demands." If this is so, Miss Cantarow, a signer of the letter, might be more circumspect in her use of language...