Word: failed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fingered direction of George (Green Pastures) Schaefer with a cameraful of Hollywood glamour: Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Jeanne Crain, Tab Hunter, Jane Powell, Ed Wynn. The Browning Version was also star-packed: Sir John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker, Robert Stephens. With so much to offer, neither show could fail. And in the case of The Browning Version, Gielgud's superlative performance could have done the job alone. Sir John's every movement, every artful, effortless nuance of speech added up to a television triumph. Just having hired him to play the pathetic old English schoolmaster...
...simple answer to the problem of preparation lies in standardized secondary schooling--those schools which fail to meet the minimum standards imposed by Ivy League colleges simply are not considered at admissions time. President Emeritus Conant has been a strong advocate of this "pull the high schools up by our bootstraps" theory of admissions, despite the danger of leaving the the small town high school irrevocably behind...
Obviously, there are many disadvantages associated with a program of transfers into the freshman class. Five years of undergraduate work, not four, might be necessary. The Admissions Committee could gain many more headaches. And there is always the chance that such a program would fail completely due to lack of interest. However, the Admissions Committee probably could assess applicants better after a year of college work; by that additional period of study, the applicants could prove whether or not they were "diamonds in the rough." More important, the benefits of Harvard education would be opened, at least potentially, to students...
...supreme test as to whether man can function and survive space travel. He has been chosen as the one single sample from all the billions of men that populate the earth to test for the first time man's ability to go out among the stars. To fail this test would be to fail all mankind. Yes-he will go around again and again...
...visited Lhasa's great monasteries of Drepung and Sera to engage in religious disputation with their learned abbots. This was a critical moment, for upon his intelligence and agility of mind would depend the future balance of power. He would not be deposed should he fail the examination, but he could be turned into a puppet-a Living Buddha who was easily manipulated by shrewd and able monks...