Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need for speed dictates that the Army training program must be the narrow technical affair that present portents indicate, then the humanities must be curtailed. But a total blackout now of liberal education may cause it to suffer in the long run. The carefully developed faculties of many universities might irrevocably be decimated by such a suspension of the liberal arts for the remaining years of the war. Whatever there is in the way of liberal education will serve as the nucleus of post-war studies in the liberal arts. And although Army officials have expressed the opinion that general...
Chief attractions were 1) a bullfight and 2) a comedian. Better of the two was the bullfight, Silk, Blood and Sun, a gory affair starring one female and two male bullfighters, played by a dark beauty, Gloria Marin, a boyish Mexican matinee idol, Jorge Negrete, and stocky Pepe Ortiz, one of Mexico's top-rank toreadors. The film, which hangs on the usual triangle, gives Actress Marin and Actor Negrete little to do but look pretty, an assignment for which Miss Marin is admirably equipped. But the picture has a rough, lusty wit and becomes intensely exciting when Toreador...
...AFFAIR AT THE BOAT LANDING- A. B. Cunningham-Dutton ($2). The mother wit of Kentucky Sheriff Jess Roden here solves the killing of a farmer and a beauteous halfwit. The story is noteworthy for color and character, as well as for logical detection...
...dance, sponsored by the Private School Association of Boston, will be the first formal affair open to the midshipmen since their recent arrival at the Harvard Business School. The dance will feature Ruby Newman's orchestra...
...monster jam session at the Bradford Sunday was too often just monstrous. Considering that the affair was a daring experiment, it was by no means a disappointment. Close to a thousand people proved beyond any doubt that there is a large audience for jazz in Boston, provided, of course, that the jazz is of a well established variety...