Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble is that everyone does know the story, or at least some version of it. The Deane-Balderston play is hopelessly dated; it does not rattle anyone's teeth, and the only resonances suggest old Clairol commercials. ("Now I am full of vitality. Before I was such a poor drab thing..." says one blonde character to another.) The production is paced like an old movie running on a rusty projector. There is no tension, no energy. Characters constantly strike poses straight out of silent pictures--but with none of the old film actors' sincerity...
ACCURATE FORECASTS of how many students will be able to leave the Quad are as rare as an uncrowded River suite. But the outlines of the situation suggest that leaving the Quad will be harder to do this year than in the past. As part of the Fox plan's conscious effort to make the Quad more desirable, the Housing Office switched 45 upperclass Quad residents to the River--five to each House. In doing so. University Hall aimed to reduce Quad density to the point where no Quad rooms would be doubles, as some had been in past years...
Neither organization supports lay midwives. The World Health Organization and associated group standards for midwifery suggest a minimum of three years of special education, including at least one year of nursing. We wonder why California proposes a level of maternal care that WHO deems unacceptable for Nigeria, New Guinea or the Malagasy Republic...
...your article on falling Scholastic Aptitude Tests scores [Sept. 5], you suggest that one reason for the decline in these scores might be decreased motivation among test takers as opportunities for getting into college have widened. I suggest another reason for this presumed lack of ambition. This December I will graduate Phi Beta Kappa from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. in psychology; if I'm lucky, I may be able to get a job typing. So much for motivation...
...years. Aside from junk jewelry and silverware, the loot was a curious miscellany: a Mickey Mouse watch, three strips of lace, a cigar cutter, Confederate money, an old carburetor and an autographed program for a 1919 Rachmaninoff concert. Far from proving a love of lucre, the auction results suggest that Americans can be careless about money: the whole lot went for a total...