Word: turnabout
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...attitude toward drama. How would be compelled to ask. "What caused this change?" In 1953 if he had been told that dramatics would hold a dominant position in the University in 1956, he would have said this would only be possible with a Harvard Theatre. The reasons for the turnabout in attitudes is not readibly explainable. Walter Kerr of the New York Herald-Tribune points to the recent surge of dramatic activity throughout the country as being based on a "removal of political suppression" and "economic prosperity," but at Harvard, students who have been active in drama since 1953 have...
Barring an unexpected turnabout in the next day's free figure trials, this meant that Tenley Albright had beaten Carol Heiss again. No one else was close. "Oh, the judges like Tenley." whispered Mrs. Heiss to a companion. "They always do." Then she searched out Tenley Albright's mother, Elin, and congratulated her. "We've just lost the championship," Mrs. Heiss told newsmen. "I have already congratulated Tenley's mother, and I asked her to put it on record that I congratulated her this year one day ahead of time...
...turnabout resulted from a ludicrously simple one-word error in El Caribe last Oct. 27. By an unexplained fluke, a picture caption in that 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...
...debating-joined in for the first time since he left office by Assemblyman Mendès-France himself-France's National Assembly overwhelmingly approved the government proposal to grant Tunisia internal self-government in gradual stages over the next 20 years. Even the Communists did an unexpected turnabout, tossing their 98 Assembly votes in on the government side and leaving only the extreme right in opposition. The vote: 540 for Tunisian home rule, 43 against...
Republicans made the most of Leader's turnabout. Jeered U.S. Senator and ex-Governor James Duff: "The Leader tax program is sure enough a rock 'em, sock 'em plan, a regular Donnybrook Fair idea. When you look around to see who is getting hurt, you get socked right on the button yourself-more of a tax smack by hundreds of millions than was ever before proposed in Pennsylvania, most of it in direct violation of definite campaign pledges." But George Leader stood his ground. He snapped: "I have just begun to fight...