Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eden pleaded that faced with Israel's sudden action the British and French had to act too swiftly for "the inevitably cumbrous processes" of the U.N. But the British had known of the Israelis' in tentions earlier, with France doing most of the dirty work in linking the three nations in conspiracy (TIME...
...Star Farmer of America," and successor to igss's winner, Joe Moore of Tennessee (TIME, Oct. 24. 1955). This week, in celebration, Patrick's Brooks County farmer friends held a giant barbecue for him (6,000 chickens, i.ooo pecan pies). The Ford Motor Co. got into the act, picked up the food tab. gave Patrick one of its new combination pickup truck and passenger cars which the company will start producing for the farm trade next month...
SEIZE THE DAY, by Saul Bellow (21 I pp.; Viking; $3), is a collection of four stories and a one-act play by the author of the 1953 bestseller, The Adventures of Augie March. In his latest adventures, Author Bellow suggests that money is not only the root of all evil but also of all plot. "Money," muses one character who doesn't have any, "surrounds you in life as the earth does in death." Tommy Wilhelm, the fortyish hero of the title story, has a mind as empty as his pocket. Unemployed, dunned by his estranged wife, rebuffed...
...Count Almaviva, Malcolm Ticknor handles his small voice nicely in his arias but tends to get drowned out in the ensembles. His acting is particularly effective in the second act when he pretends to be a drunken soldier. Margaret Russell sings Berta's aria rather pleasingly...
...author of the British Education Act of 1944, felt that education must be aimed at the personal abilities and aptitudes of the student, especially at the elementary and secondary school level...