Search Details

Word: select (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Which is the Lampoon, Dear Reader: a select club or a literary effort? For the last few months, the answer has been all too clear. The Castle may have been beseiged with good times, but the printed matter has been dreary. Since fall, the Lampoon's coffers have been cracking with filthy PlayboyParody lucre. The club was refurbished, but the magazine's layout and content brightened only sporadically. Unfortunately for the Lampoon, money can talk, but it can't write...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: The Lampoon | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

...those men don't agree with the draft or think there should be select objection to the Vietnam war, they should work through our representative institutions to change the law," Jay B. Stephens '68, president of the club, said last night...

Author: By W. BRUCE Springer, | Title: Republicans Caution, but Uphold 'We Won't Go' Draft Resisters | 4/20/1967 | See Source »

...only the photographer, however, who faces the problem of using isolated observations out of context. A limit of 1200 pages upon a writer imposes difficulties just as critical as those of one-hundredth of a second upon a photographer. Tolstroy once noted that his primary problem was to select and arrange separate moments taken from continuous time. Discontinuity--inherent in all descriptive or reproductive art--is not in itself a criterion for judging "truthfulness...

Author: By Mark L. Rosenberg, | Title: The Portrait in Photography: 1848-1966 | 4/17/1967 | See Source »

...Washington, O'Brien advocated a radically new setup under which 1) a government-owned corporation would replace the present Cabinet-level department, 2) responsibility for operations would be vested in a board of di rectors nominated by the President and confirmed by Congress, and 3) the board would select a professional administrator to run the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Progress Above Politics | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...doubt that Powell would win at the polls, but his victory could well be meaningless, since the House has already voted, 307 to 116, to bar him from the 90th Congress. There remains, however, the possibility that the House will relent. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the select committee that recommended that Powell be seated but penalized, predicts that the House will now admit the prodigal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Shoo on the Other Foot | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

Previous | 753 | 754 | 755 | 756 | 757 | 758 | 759 | 760 | 761 | 762 | 763 | 764 | 765 | 766 | 767 | 768 | 769 | 770 | 771 | 772 | 773 | Next