Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several courses far down in the '53 ratings have climbed into the select 20 group. Probably the most formidable rise was made by Government 115, which soared from 30th a year ago to 15th this year. Slightly less meteoric are the moves of Fine Arts 13 to 13th from 21st last spring and of Social Science 1 from 17th to ninth...
Very rarely does the transition from stage to screen improve a play. But The Long Voyage Home, aided by John Ford's deft direction, is one of the select few. Actually the picture, a series of four one-act plays by Eugene O'Neill, is more suited to the screen; few theatres can accommodate ships...
...select the 48,716 "biographees," the book's 15-man research staff considers some 250,000 names for every edition, drops about 5,000 and adds about 8,000 new names. Biographees come from two groups: 1) "arbitrary," e.g., top public officials, churchmen, high-ranking military men, heads of large universities, and, 2) "general reference interest," i.e., anyone who has done something that makes him noteworthy. To find names for the second group, the staff culls hundreds of newspapers, magazines, directors and membership lists of companies and organizations, even gets job descriptions from big corporations to make sure...
...speak at the University in the face of requests that they be banned. The article was not written to pass Judgment on Mr. Lattimore or his views. Its only conclusion was that the University was following the principle laid down by Dean Bender permitting an undergraduate organization to select its own speakers...
Senator Knowland's suggestion that the party policy committee in each house select chairmen from the senior committee members seems reasonable. Power of appointment and removal in this group would ensure party responsibility at least, and would make possible the replacement of incompetents. Under this kind of a system, obstructionist antics like those of Langer need not be tolerated...