Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electors go through the list three times. The first time they try to classify the candidates as obviously electable, possible, and below par. (This, in itself, is no mean trick when all the candidates are at the top of a class of a thousand Harvard men.) They then go through again, raising or lowering the ranks of disputed candidates. Finally, they try to reduce the number of obvious candidates to the number permitted for election...
...highly purposeful; a choreographer, he says, has to "use people." Lincoln Kirstein, Balanchine's patron and the general director of the company, calls him "Oriental, impersonal, even sinister," but points out that "Balanchine has imposed his personal vision on the world of theatrical dancing." This is quite a trick, for ballet, according to Kirstein, "has become a means for the extreme release of physical and mental capacity involving measure, melody, memory and money...
...Monday the MCAD took the initiative and wrote to the senators, urging them to defeat its bill. That, in addition to the citizen campaign, apparently did the trick...
Weil said COFO officials feel the bill "is almost certainly unconstitutional one way or another." If it passes, "the trick will probably be to get an early test case set up," added...
...easy swipe for the American, which prints by the offset process; all the paper had to do was cut out a Republic box score, paste it up on a dummy of its own sports page and then photograph and engrave the whole page. A very useful trick for a small, struggling daily without much money to spend. But the Republic's Gianelli decided to fix the American's wagon. So into one box score he inserted a damning phrase-REPRINTED FROM REPUBLIC. Sure enough, it came out that way in the American that same afternoon...