Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resigned last summer as Chiang Kai-shek's personal chief of staff amid rumors of a Red plot (TIME, Aug. 29), made public its findings last week. Its verdict: General Sun had formed a clique of army officers that had been used-without his knowledge-by a Red agent. Accepting the commission's recommendation of clemency, President Chiang announced that the general would be "given an opportunity to redeem himself and be subject to no further disciplinary action...
Thus Joseph Conrad, in The Secret Agent (1907), gave a prophetic portrait of that now familiar pest of the West-the Communist espionage agent...
...knows what causes "mono" although most authorizes favor a virus. However, no transmissible agent has ever been isolated. Doctors, although they do not know the specific cause, claim that young unmarried people who are often fatigued are particularly vulnerable. Perhaps this explains why the colleges and school infirmaries have from five to seven-hundred percent more cases than do public hospitals in the same area. The student who suffers form football weekends and hour exams is more liable to suffer than the office worker who enjoys neither of these benefits...
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (by George Axelrod) is a satiric free-for-all on Hollywood and sex by the author of The Seven Year Itch. There is a blonde, Marilyn-Monroeish siren, a bland Hollywood agent with satanic powers, an illiterate Hollywood producer, an idling playwright who wrote a sock first play and can't get on with a second. And there is a shy, not very bright young fan-magazine writer who, by selling his soul in 10% slices to the agent, becomes a modern-day Faust...
...idea in uniting a 20th-century Faust with 20th Century-Fox. And Will Success, at its best, produces fresher, funnier and coarser lines than anything in The Seven Year Itch. Playwright Axelrod offers sex on the rocks and Hollywood in the raw, coaxes a few new laughs out of agents and Oscars, contrives short vaudevilles on such Hollywood problems as how to treat Boy-Meets-Girl stories. Jayne Mansfield makes an amusing siren and Martin Gabel a particularly skillful agent...