Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surges through the colleges, planners look to broad scholarship programs to take up the slack left by loose planning. Scholarships, too, are a stopgap measure compared to federal aid. But scholarships succeed in bringing leadership to the colleges, whereas Mr. Conant's two-year plan could do little but stunt and discourage this very leadership...
...union men also changed when he told them he was sorry for his past dictatorial attitude. He was followed by a union organizer from the same department, who testified that he had been a militant Communist for 28 years and had thought it 'a capitalist, stunt' when the manager faced him with kindness, but had been changed by the power of the manager's spirit. . . . I noticed that none of them made mention of ... Christian doctrine...
This storytelling technique is not exactly a revolutionary development in moviemaking, but it is an unusual, effective and clever stunt, particularly well-suited to an action-crammed thriller. Most of the formidable technical problems were ingeniously solved. In his first job, Director Montgomery (who is president of the Screen Actors Guild and something of a Hollywood intellectual) dared to do something different...
...Stunt. After studying in Germany, she made her concert debut in Chicago, then sang with the San Carlo and Chicago Opera companies. In 1943 she sang a New York recital of American songs by Virgil Thomson, Paul Bowles, John Cage and others. Says Janet Fairbank: "People thought it was going to be a nut stunt. When I started, the American songs that were sung were mostly the 'I Love Life' type. I think I made people realize that there were good American songs. I always try to stay away from hackneyed things. Unless you are a Lotte Lehmann...
Kelly also noted the acceptance by the N.C.A.A. of two former "stunt dives" as regular events, both packing high degrees of difficulty. Developed at Ohio State, a running double twisting forward one-and-a-half somersault, has been rated at 2.8, and a back one-and-one-half twisting somersault carries 2.6 as its multiple...