Word: twelfths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelfth annual Emmy awards ceremony, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences handed highest acting honors to two foreigners for their U.S. television debuts. The toppers: Sir Laurence Olivier in Talent Associates-NBC's The Moon and Sixpence, Ingrid Bergman in NBC's The Turn of the Screw. To Writer Rod Serling went his fourth Emmy for his Twilight Zone series, which he also narrated...
...newly extended apron stage (designed to achieve neo-Elizabethan intimacy), see a forgettable version of Two Gentlemen from Verona mounted on a revolving stage, a tricked-up Twelfth Night, and a fine Taming of the Shrew, starring Peggy Ashcroft. ¶ Ontario's Stratford, a 1953 offshoot of England's, and heavily Anglicized in cast and directors, was originally housed in a huge tent, eight miles from the town of Shakespeare; the festival moved indoors-in 1957, and its parasol-roofed theater makes Ontario's the only Stratford with true arena staging. More a purist than a tourist...
...bring an end to this numbers game, Bowles sees hope in a "two-stage" system in which high school students are accepted provisionally in the eleventh grade, confirmed as freshmen if they do well in the twelfth grade. He concedes one objection: it might only begin the multiple-application problem one year earlier. Yet the idea resembles the "early-decision" plan successfully but sparingly used by many select women's colleges. They pick superior eleventh-graders who aim at one particular college from the start; this year 25% of Wellesley's freshmen entered under the plan...
...right student from the beginning. Two such centers are already in operation, but they help only those students rejected by colleges of their choice. ¶ A series of cooperative committees formed by big colleges with similar goals and standards, to pick eleventh-graders. This might cut multiple applications from twelfth-graders by as much as one-third, encourage more students to apply to good small colleges as their first choice. ¶ A "matching plan" in which colleges would accept students in staggered waves. A central agency would keep track of those not accepted in the first-choice wave. A second...
Divorced. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 61, sometime newspaperman and author, who last year in his twelfth nonfiction book (Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents) listed F.D.R. as "the only person in our social group who took me seriously"; by Ann Bernadette Needham, 28, his sixth wife and former secretary; after three years, no children; in Reno...