Word: sound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hammond gave no particular reason why the Faculty Club now wants to break precedent for an official liquor permit. "There was talk about it over the summer," Hammond remarked, "and a group of us wanted to sound out the Administration about it this fall...
...resort about 20 miles southeast of Palm Springs. Brown, dressed in swimming trunks and a flowered sports shirt, sat basking in the desert sun and in a delightful dilemma: whether to hew sternly to a campaign pledge to serve his full four-year term as Governor or to sound like an oracle when people talk about him for the Democratic national ticket in 1960. He chose the oracular: "I believe in a certain philosophy of government-of a government which serves all the people-and I think that as Governor of California I'll have a chance to work...
...attack on the practice of capital punishment? Possibly. But the script spends no sympathy on the two men convicted as the heroine's accomplices, who meet the same fate as she does. Well then, what is it? To judge from the far-out photography, real desperate sound track, and dragsville dialogue that Krylon-spray the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems less concerned to assist the triumph of justice than to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser...
Myron P. Gilmore, Chairman of the History Department, agreed that "holding tutorial meetings in the Houses is a sound principle," and added that "we would be glad to cooperate." However, "any adjustment is up to the Masters," he stated...
...religious systems, Huxley wants mankind to find the ideas and beliefs most useful for a good and happy life, but forgets that men do not necessarily believe what is useful. Huxley's plan, apart from his perfect pill, seems to involve cooperative communities, birth control and freedom. Sound as some of this may be, the depraved old world is unlikely to heed. And the thought of aging (64) Aldous-an intellectual well past average breeding age-proffering a prophylactic to the teeming East is downright funny. Reactionaries will continue to listen to Singing Theologicals and hope against Stopes...