Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience gave Figlia sufferance while clapping up seven enthusiastic curtain calls for the cast itself. Afterward, exhausted but unfazed by the prospect of mixed reviews, Mezzo Stevens stood up stoutly for the opera. "It has a lot of melody," she said. "I was very excited right from the start. Acting-wise it was wonderful for me. Besides, nobody could compare me with anybody...
...more than a temporarily paralyzing effect. It produced the veteran's attitude of "to hell with everything but a degree." And it produced the more permanent prospect of 1,000 additional undergraduates. The veterans had no time to meet and discuss with other students and tutors. Tutorial, abolished during the war, could not withstand post-war indifference and crowding, and gave way to an advisory system. In view of Lowell's motives in founding the Houses, the move in retrospect seems almost unaccountable...
...Reform of the civil service, which employs countless Italians more loyal to the Communist Party than to the country. There is no prospect of removing Communists as such from their hundreds of minor posts, for there is no law banning adherents of the second largest political party from government service. But the government may refuse financial support to Red-run unions of government employees, forbid them to join in political strikes under penalty of dismissal...
...probably will mean final confirmation of his right to the seat. The report this week goes to the Rules Committee and then to the Senate floor. There, barring a miracle, Dennis Chavez should be able to muster enough of his colleagues' votes to keep his seat. This prospect was clear to ex-Cavalryman Hurley. Growled he: "The Grand Old Party apparently now hasn't the guts that God gave a goose...
...power reactor now in prospect is the 60,000-kw. job announced last fall (TIME, Nov. 2). Commissioner Smyth described it this time in some detail. Its fuel will be "slightly enriched" uranium (more U-235 than in natural uranium), and its moderator and coolant will be ordinary water at 2,000-lbs.-per-sq.-in. pressure and a temperature between 500° and 600° F. This is not high pressure or temperature for a coal-burning steam plant, but it is unusual for a nuclear reactor, and Dr. Smyth anticipates a certain amount of trouble. He does...