Word: slated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be much better if Congress would clear the slate, start over again and retain only a few basic deductions, probably including: 1) personal exemp tions for individuals, boosting the amount somewhat above the outdated $600 level enacted 21 years ago; 2) charitable contributions, without the appreciated-property loophole; 3) state and local sales and income taxes but not state gasoline taxes; and 4) business expenses, but with tighter controls against abuses. The current law covers a rather liberal range of activities. Last week, for example, Topless Dancer Marlene Sherman of San Francisco proudly announced that the IRS had agreed...
...cavernous fourth story of Manhattan's Whitney Museum, with its stark slate floors and 17-ft. ceilings, can seem as empty and remote as an abandoned temple. A-architecture, it is a demanding frame, diminishing the trivial but magnificently enhancing the heroic. Currently, frame and subject seem superbly conjoined in a display of 46 huge, brilliantly colored canvases by Helen Frankenthaler. There, on the impassive walls, color gardens of imaginary flowers bloom with subtle petals of mauve, maroon, crimson, orange, cinnamon. There are stately, bold, blaring rectangles of cherry and apricot, leaping palegold fires, whistling blue sails of form...
Fielding an experienced team, the Bunnies are undefeated in both leagues; however, their victories have been scored over the weaker members of the slate, including disappointing Winthrop teams. Leverett has yet to meet the other major contenders, Eliot and Lowell...
Michigan Tech barely edged Denver for the league championship. The Pioneers had a 14-6 mark in league competition, but Tech's 14-5-1 slate gave them the crown...
Some members must have agreed with him, for only sixty of the two hundred fifty dues-payers showed up to elect a new slate and to find some reasons to keep going. As it turned out, there was only one candidate running for office. With usual Harvard finesse in parliamentary procedure ("We're voting on the amendment to the amendment . . . is there anyone who doesn't understand?"), it took just a half hour to elect Charles Schumer unanimously. Running without opposition, he was able to turn his campaign speech into an inaugural address...