Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite their relative accuracy, polls fluctuate so sharply that since last August, every major candidate has at one time or another emerged as the people's presidential choice. The reason is clear: during pre-election months, the volatile voters' sentiments seesaw along with news events and the candidates' pronouncements-which is what campaigns are all about. Party loyalties are also weaker in May than in November. One consequence is that extremist, third-party candidates often run stronger in polls and primaries than in national elections-as may well be the case in 1968 with George Wallace...
...Near Minsk. "Collective resistance," writes Miss Levin, "was never possible; by the time Jews grasped the reality that they were doomed to be killed no matter what they did, they were isolated, weakened and abandoned." And until that terrible moment, there was the diabolical "tease-and-terror seesaw" psychology of the Nazis, who deliberately "cultivated the illusion that there would be a way out." Until the war's very end, for example, Nazi propagandists billed the camp at Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia as a kind of idyllic community, though for scores of thousands-including 15,000 of the more than...
Halfway through the meet the score stood at 32-29 for Harvard. But the Tigers swept the 200-yard butterfly to gain the lead for the first time in the afternoon. Harvard's Bragg and Adams responded by sweeping the 100-yard freestyle. The seesaw continued to swing as Princeton won the 200-yard backstroke to tie the meet; Harvard stormed back with a Shrout-led sweep of the 500-yard freestyle. Then Princeton edged out Harvard's Carl Cummins in the 200-yard breaststroke, postponing the decision to the final event, the 400-yard free relay...
...character man-woman play is now a Broadway staple. Lawrence Holofcener's Before You Go ranks with Two for the Seesaw and The Owl and the Pussycat as the best of the genre. Wry, perceptive, honest, sad, funny and tender, it is compassionately discerning about two people who are not quite wise to themselves...
...director, Beatty signed up Arthur Penn, 45, a narrow, sparrowish Broadway veteran (Two For the Seesaw), whose Hollywood record included a few hits (The Miracle Worker), several flops (The Chase, Mickey One). Penn wanted the film edited in Manhattan, which meant that the choice of which scenes would end up on the cutting-room floor would take place 2,500 miles from the home base of Warner Bros. To Jack Warner, 75, who liked to make his own pick of the rushes, everything but salami should be cut in the studio. More problems were to follow-arguments about sound, music...