Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John and Katherine engage in their desultory first act conversation, however, he poses as a widower who has slept around, but "never with anyone I could care for." The two tell each other tales of woe at great and tedious length, finally retiring for the night on separate couches in Katherine's hotel room...
...staggers away after Act One, the perceptive theatregoer notices that the next scene is "Later that night," and takes heart. However, at 4 in the morning, John feels compelled to tell the truth about himself, while the audience suffers, before he and Katherine succumb to the inevitable...
...letter circulated to Faculty members Oct. 8, Conant made clear the University's position: Any teacher who refuses to take the oath cannot work at Harvard. "It is clear that the act does not require you to take the oath if your duties are wholly and clearly apart from teaching," he wrote in a remarkably restrained tone...
Bascomb captures the bomb, its inventor (David Kasoff) and his daughter (Jean Seberg), four policemen and a blustery, obtuse General. Unfortunately, the real bomb in the film is Miss Seberg, who though fetching, cannot act--even when one concedes that her part is largely a spoof on the Hollywood heroine type. After losing his heart to Miss Seberg and his insides to the Atlantic, Bascomb returns to Grand Fenwick as unwelcome victor...
What touched off the fight was some behind-the-scenes maneuvering by Alleghany's Executive Vice President David Wallace, 35, who also acts as trustee to Bob Young's estate and adviser to his widow. Wallace had advised Mrs. Young to support any future Sonnabend bid for control. When Kirby got wind of this piece of advice, the executive committee fired Wallace. Snapped Sonnabend ominously: "An act of bad faith. A violation of a gentleman's agreement to keep Wallace. I decline to serve on the board as presently constituted...