Word: prima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into effect, and the Board of Regents prepared its regulations. The Board directed school authorities in each city to designate one or more officials to report on the loyalty of all teachers. If the officials discovered any evidence that a teacher belonged to a "subversive" group, this would "constitute prima facie evidence of disqualification for appointment to or retention of any office or position in the school system...
...Feinberg Law itself, Judge Carswell noted that the conditions imposed and the classifications made "are reasonable," and said that the state was competent to use "prima facie evidence" in disqualifying teachers...
Help from the Men. Since beautiful Prima Ballerina Margot Lander retired in February, the Royal Ballet has sorely missed a female dancer who could rival England's Margot Fonteyn (TIME, Nov. 14). And the company as a whole could not quite match the glittering polish and clockwork precision drilled into the Sadler's Wells troupe. But the Danes proved to be second to none in their male stars...
...syndicated "Pitching Horseshoes" last week, Columnist Billy Rose told a touching tale about an actress of bygone days whom he called Harriet Reeves. According to Rose, she was a prima donna who made many enemies by her scene-stealing and slights before a weak heart forced her to quit the stage. Then, told that she had only a few months to live, Harriet Reeves contritely determined to give an elaborate party for the people she had wronged. But on the appointed night "last summer," nobody came. After two hours of humiliating waiting, Harriet Reeves had a heart attack and died...
Complete with spear-carriers and prima donnas, grand opera was launching a mass assault on television. ABC started it with ponderous telecasts from the Metropolitan of Otello and Der Rosenkavalier. Last week, in the first of a series, CBS and Artistic Director Lawrence Tibbett proved that opera could be sprightly as well as tuneful, in an 80-minute version of Bizet's Carmen on the Opera Television Theater...