Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pedagogical abilities of a prospective colleague than students are. I think the position could be defended that a given faculty search committee could well be less competent to judge that quality, which is so critical for the students, than students themselves. As long as the tail doesn't wag the dog, what is wrong with giving students voting power on a search committee in order to have its legitimate interests taken into consideration? Once the appointment is made, the faculty members go back to their offices. The students are expected to attend the new man's lectures...
...first time in two decades, out side producers have been making their mark on the Festspielhaus, the Wagner family's private preserve in the 12th century town of Bayreuth. Richard Wag ner originally built the opera house in 1876 as a setting in which his music dramas would continue to be produced ex actly as he originally directed. Through the years, the composer's family followed his wishes, using the house for productions of Wagnerian operas that adhered slavishly - and sometimes stodgily - to the Master's wishes. After World War II, Grandsons Wolfgang and Wieland broke with...
...young wag wrote: "Candy/ Is dandy/ But liquor/ Is quicker." Now comes an addendum by Verseman Ogden Nash, 66, for the new generation...
Washington can do little more than wag a finger. Earlier this year, President Johnson succeeded in rolling back Bethlehem Steel Corp.'s price boosts of almost 5% with threats of diverting Government steel orders. The Administration has no such leverage over the car industry. Instead, it must count on the keen competition among automakers themselves to do the job of keeping prices down...
...earth dam, 15 miles away, that held back Lake Conemaugh and its 20 million tons of water. Both lake and dam belonged to a club where Pittsburgh's most powerful families "roughed it." The dam was in bad shape; every time there was a hard rain, some local wag was sure to say: 'Well, this is the day the old dam is going to break." And break it finally did, unleashing a wall of water at times 70 feet high. Within an hour, there was nothing left of Johnstown except a mountain of debris and a handful...