Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defending his admissions' policy, Dean Bender said yesterday that "I do not think we should judge the success or failure of our policy on a single shift like this." The class of '61, he noted, "has many people who are very interesting, but also risky and erratic...
...Byrdmen's drive for some last, Faubus-style gesture of defiance. "I don't feel defeated." said Almond, "just realistic." Carefully he picked 40 legislators for a commission to frame further resistance measures. Though segregationists all, the commission's members represented a gentle but firm shift away from control by the diehards from heavily Negro South-side Virginia, long the stronghold of Byrd control of the legislature...
...cotton blowing away unharvested while the local peasantry concentrated on rebuilding Peking's showy Tien An Men Square. The great campaign to produce steel and pig iron in homemade blast furnaces created even more widespread labor shortages. Factories producing textiles for export were obliged to cut out a shift in order to free workers to stoke the ubiquitous furnaces...
Half the plot is carried forward through asides ("Had I but known this maiden's true station . . ."), and when the stage crew needs time to shift scenery, the present production throws in an irrelevant song. All in all, the revival proves that passable 19th century satire can make for delightful 20th century farce...
...Boone Show (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Bing's youngest, at five months, still lacks the necessary laryngeal nodes, but the first shift (Gary, Dennis, Philip and Lindsay) groan as only the Crosby clan...