Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Traveling Lady some of the people even play muddled roles-parts that have only the most peripheral value or semi-farcical character. They pass and repass, moreover, among lighting effects that involve the approach of dusk or onset of night, or sound effects of offstage dance music and distant trains. Such mood props can be valuable when they supplement the right storytelling and speech; but in The Traveling Lady they are often merely sentimental substitutes for them. There is no drive or fiber to the play, but rather a curious sense of wordiness without any gift for words...
...seems to us that the Student Council in its proposal to elect the Permanent Class Committee on a semi-House basis is defeating the true purpose underlying the Class Committee election...
...those semi-intellectuals who scout among the theatre listings, searching for ripe-sounding films at which they will be able to mock the public taste, to laugh at the wrong times, and to burp obscenities in love scenes, White Christmas will seem a promising tidbit. What unparalleled opportunities for bad taste--Bing Crosby as a lover, Rosemary Clooney as a singer, Danny Kaye as a wise-cracking comic, Dean Jagger as a crusty, kindly old general! All in Technicolor and Vista Vision tool How could it miss...
...YORK CITY, Oct. 27, (Special)--The College Entrance Examination Board approved almost unanimously a national program for advanced placement examinations, at its semi-annual meeting here today...
Plans for solving the problem of multiple college applications will be outlined today in New York City at the semi-annual meeting of the entire College Entrance Examination Board...