Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Agreeing with Raubinger's charge that any evaluation of high schools in terms of the Merit winners and semi-finalists they produce is "foolish," Wilbur J. Bender, Dean of Admissions, said he entirely supported the view that national testing should not determine college placement...
...concerned in his search with resolving the tension between the imperious demands of his body and the restrictions of society. As in all true epics the goal of the quest is right love, and the Rock 'n' Roller searches for this highest of human expressions. Jimmy Reed shows the semi-existential predicament...
...lithe young women of the Ballets Africains troupe appeared semi-nude on the Colonial stage two nights ago. The audience gasped a little, and one dance even made something humorous of the situation, but it was apparent that women, dressed or undressed, play only a peripheral role in this show. Les Ballets Africains is primarily a man's affair, an exhibition of superbly masculine dances and rhythms. Virtuoso leaps, cartwheels, and spins follow in profusion, until the proceedings resemble some sort of idealized athletic event. Such is the spontaneity of the dancers that repetitions of these vigorous movements always seems...
...sing, shouldn't. Mr. Douglas at least does a good gruff job on what emerges as a thoroughly nasty character, but Miss Booth, in what should be a congenial role, seems almost uncomfortable; her famous infectious warm-heartedness is unaccountably missing, as well as her knack for pleasant semi-singing. Jack MacGrowran, as the Captain's fairweather sycophant, Joxer Daly, makes a pleasant if repetitive performance out of his slight build, weasly face, and nimble-stepping cringe. The other roles are taken mostly by singers and dancers whose acting appears to stem more from necessity than inclination...
Three squads were undefeated after six rounds of preliminary activity, but tournament officials would not reveal the identity of those groups. Competition will begin at 9 a.m. today, with quarter-finals coming at 1 p.m. and semi-finals...