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Previously, the Class Day Committee provided the senior class with a list of ten or so candidates. "This process would allow a minority to prevail over the wishes of a wider range of students who might prefer a certain type of speaker rather than a particular individual. The committee's objective was to come up with a speaker that the class would enjoy most rather than trying to get a big name." Marcus said...
...tendency for overlong recitative passages that stretch audience interest thin at times. The singing dialogues, however, especially the rustics', are splendid. In the end, after all the trials and tribulations of True Romance, there is a grand reconciliation when the status quo is restored. Good-humor and realism prevail over magic. At this point, the rustic laborers' comic rendition of the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe is not only a parody of human lovers' seriousness, but also of 19th century opera...
Sweet Sixteen. Unlike most women's basketball contests, which are now played under the same rules that prevail in men's games, the tournament contests are still played by traditional women's rules: six-to-a-side basketball in which a team's three forwards and three guards are restricted to opposite ends of the court. The guards play defense and pass the ball across the midcourt line to the forwards, who work it in for good shots. While half-court rules restrict basket-to-basket flow, they also place a premium on passing and shooting...
...Carter acknowledged last week, the U.S. has denied visas to admitted Communists-a violation of the Helsinki agreement. At White House direction, the State Department is already studying possible revisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. Nor has Western Europe been blameless. Restrictions on political activity still prevail in Spain. Britain has admitted extensive violations of human rights in jailing dissidents in Northern Ireland...
...diversity, a mood of good fellowship seemed to prevail. Said one celebrated Atlantan, Baseball Slugger Hank Aaron, on Inauguration Eve: "Tomorrow at noon, the war between the North and the South is truly over." Remarked British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Ramsbotham on viewing his first Inauguration: "There is a great feeling of reconciliation. Such extraordinary good humor...