Word: suggestting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...poet who possesses a shapely daughter but no money and, to judge by his verses, no talent. His rise to prosperity involves, of course, an evil wizard and a prince who runs around the streets of Baghdad incognito. Howard Keel, as the poet, is just entertaining enough to suggest that with even half-decent material he might give a fine performance. Ann Blyth does not distinguish her fairly easy part as the poet's daughter, but she does not ruin it either. The same, unfortunately can not be said of Vic Damone, the prince, who has a mediocre singing voice...
Another proposal, which CCA members suggest, would make the mayoralty election separate from the Council elections. The voters would elect one mayor and eight Councilmen--not nine potential mayors as at present. The delays and recurring political deals would vanish, and the mayoralty would cease to be a political plum, plucked in back rooms of the Hotel Commander. The qualifications for a mayor, after all, differ from those for a councilman; the separate elections would give the voters the chance to put the right man in the right office, and the city would not be forced to depend so much...
Specifically, Kingsley has promised CBS five Spectaculars in the next five years, but he will also do serious "thinking" about TV problems and will suggest ideas for special projects: "I intend to develop the magical quality of TV, the things it can do technically that it hasn't begun to touch. Man's earliest dreams were allied to the idea of seeing on the walls of his cave a vision of something as it happens. And where realism is called for, I'm going to try and get good realism. I want more truthfulness in the execution...
...issue mentioned that flowers had been placed before Trujillo's tomb (tumba); the word should have been bust (busto). It was a fatal error, Ornes explained last week, because Trujillo "is very vain and superstitious. He thinks he is immortal, and the worst thing you can do is suggest his death." When he saw the word tumba in print, Ornes said to his U.S.-born wife: "This is the end of everything...
...Professor John Jordan of the University of California's English department has noted that half of U. of C.'s applicants regularly flunk the English entrance examination. "If 50% of the top 20% of the high-school graduates cannot pass the test," says he, "it seems to suggest that, for one reason or another, the students are not very well prepared by the public schools...