Word: proper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is, in short, absolutely nothing in the play that any director could possibly fear. With the proper number of scripts and an equal set of actors--who need do little more than articulate distinctly--good sets and a brisk pace, his succeeds is assured. With these minimum requirements, the comedy must prove almost irresistible; no Shakespeare play could be less dispiriting...
Tested last week at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., which opens for business next year, was a mobile lounge, an innovation credited to Eero Saarinen that should make plane waiting a bit more pleasant. After checking in at the ticket counter, the passenger goes to the proper loading gate, which is really the wide doorway into the lounge. The lounge (54 ft. long, 17½ ft. high and 16 ft. wide) has comfortable chairs, tinted windows, piped-in music and air conditioning. At take-off time, it is driven to the waiting plane parked on the runway. The lounge...
...baubles usually came from abroad. Selim's only son, Suleiman the Magnificent, was probably responsible for a good part of the collection. Under him, the empire stretched to the Adriatic Sea and gobbled up Rhodes. Suleiman's admirals could pillage the Mediterranean, and it was thought proper for a grateful admiral to shower his sultan with gifts...
...Taurus mountains, where he joins a band of outlaws and finally becomes a Turkish Robin Hood. After a dozen gunfights, in which bursts of Homeric rhetoric alternate with bursts of grenades and guns, Memed at last avenges himself by murdering his goat-bearded enemy, Abdi Agha. Then, like a proper hero, he rides off into the sunrise and is never seen again...
...motion before the starter's gun. The University of Illinois' Leo Johnson has threatened to force changes in N.C.A.A. track rules to ban his namesake's "questionable" technique. But most track officials agree with Coach Winter that Sprinter Johnson's starts are perfectly proper. "There's nothing remotely illegal about Dennis' start." says Winter. "The only sin he's committed is to run 9.3." Johnson himself is unconcerned by the ruckus. "I've never had any complaint, not even a black look," he says, "from any of the guys...