Word: roundly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roles as a furniture warehouse in World War I and a dance hall in World War II, Covent Garden is blooming as radiantly as the famed flower market at its doorstep. The home of the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), it gives Londoners an almost year-round season of first-rate ballet and fine opera, although, in the opera department, Covent Garden is not in the same league as the Big Three (the Metropolitan, La Scala and the Vienna Staatsoper). But it has the daring to experiment with difficult new productions, e.g., its mounting last year of Berlioz...
...years in the prize ring, Virgil ("Honeybear") Akins, 30, never earned much more than a reputation as a listless, slow-starting pug. Last week the St. Louis Honeybear suddenly turned into a tiger. To the delight of a home-town audience, he took just 20 seconds of the first round to put New Jersey's Vince Martinez on the deck in their fight for the welterweight championship of the world. Martinez managed to get up, but it was a painful mistake. Akins dropped him eight more times in three more rounds, flattened his nose, and finally knocked...
Worked up from a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, the French team that wrote Diabolique and Demo-niaque, this picture tells what happens to a victim of vertigo (James Stewart) when he meets a dizzy blonde (Kim Novak). When she goes round in circles, he goes round in circles too-until he falls. Jimmy is cast as a gumshoe who has drawn the enviable assignment of keeping a private eye on Kim. The lady's husband (Tom Helmore) is afraid that his bride, in the grip of a suicidal depression, may head for the deep...
...possible contrasts are many. Representing the best in American secondary education, the independent preparatory school sacrifices the natural social atmosphere of the high school to achieve a high degree of academic discipline and rigor. The Exeter "round table" system, with a faculty member holding discussions with ten or twelve students, is one of the finest products of secondary education, but this small student-faculty ratio is possible only because of a multi-million dollar gift from Edward S. Harkness. In most of America's public schools, the unwillingness of communities to submit to higher taxes keeps school budgets...
...senior problems classes are accompanied by a vast menagerie of "special courses" geared to group dynamics and round-edged social intercourse--required courses in home economics (for girls), hygiene (for everyone), a daily period of physical training, and government classes for student leaders elected to campus offices...