Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard varsity track team obliterated an almost non-existent Dartmouth squad, 135-18, at Soldiers Field Saturday, but freshman Royce Shaw supplied the excitement to the non-contest with a spectacular 4:07.4 mile. Shaw's freshman record, five seconds below his high-school best and only one second off Mark Mullin's varsity record, put him in sight of the most magical of all barriers, the four minute mile...
Despite Challenge's innovations in admissions policy and curriculum, it has only had partial success. About two-thirds of the students show up for each session. While some have bettered their grades the changes, in general, haven't been spectacular. Challenge's most significant gains have probably been in less tangible areas like improving student attitudes toward learning culture, and college...
...York, CBS did just that by holding the meeting at Studio 41 in its Television City and showing a color-slide spectacular praising its achievements. Chairman William Paley remained unmoved when several stockholders complained about the quality of the CBS television schedule. After announcing that first-quarter earnings would drop about $1,000,000, although sales would rise to about $215 million, or 12% above the first quarter of last year, he formally announced two acquisitions-Creative Playthings and Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Two days earlier, RCA said its first-quarter sales and earnings were a record-$683 million...
...spectacular standout is David McClelland's "Great Game of Absolution and Redemption," a satire on, of all things, Calvinism-a highly successful satire which not so long ago would have gotten him dunked in every pond in Massachusetts. The Puritan game delights in the fact that wherever the player moves, he can't help but fall into sin, McClelland's apt use of the unexpected turns a good idea into a brilliantly funny piece...
Though not so spectacular, the "Unwed Mother" game by Henry Beard and Mark Stiumpf, takes some excusable cracks at Pill-wheels and has the added virtue of being slightly dirty. The list of thumb-nail sketches for parlor games at the start of the issue makes good fun of Parker Bros. jargon and is an amusing reductio ad absurdum of games in general. After the third or fourth game-article, the technique of reducing a real-life problem to playing-board size starts to wear a little thin, but the pieces are worth skimming for the occasional laugh...