Saul Bellow, a judge for the Booker Prize the year Taylor's novel "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont" was nominated, opened the first meeting with the words, "I seem to hear the tinkle of teacups".
One of the scientists shortlisted for the Fundamental Physics prize, for instance, is Michael Green of Cambridge University, nominated for "opening new perspectives on quantum gravity and the unification of forces".
Predictably (for a somewhat predictable season) the Tony nominations announced yesterday invite tea-leaf reading and pseudo-scientific analysis: X was nominated because Y opened too early in the season; Z really deserved the nod a decade ago, so the nomination is a consolation prize, and so forth.
Less than two months before the party's nominating contest opens, Mr. Romney is taking steps to increase his investments in Iowa and South Carolina, two early-voting states with conservative electorates.
The New Hampshire primary has done Americans a service by leaving both parties' nominating contests open and giving a truly broad range of voters a chance to participate in these vitally important choices.
Chicago 1968 forever changed the way Democrats and Republicans nominate presidential candidates, opening the process to outsiders and populists — and eventually to a reality TV star.
Aside from the officer positions, the guild announced a dozen candidates were nominated for nine open seats on its council.
After serving twelve years as a prosecutor, Thorne-Begland was nominated for an open seat on the General District Court of Richmond in 2012, but the Virginia House of delegates rejected him for the position for his perceived advocacy on homosexual issues.
The possibility that Gore could be nominated in an open Convention might encourage a significant number of Democratic voters not to rally around a Clinton bandwagon and give their votes to other primary candidates.
As for Kasich, even if he wins in Ohio, for him to be nominated in an open convention beyond the first ballot, the Republican National Committee would have to change the rules, and Trump is now preparing contingency plans for any rules change that could enable the kind of open convention that could thwart his nomination if he falls short of a majority of delegates on the first ballot.
