Word: alma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overtaken by the sterility of his existence. His unattractive daughter asks him inane riddles at the supper table, his wife (Estelle Parsons) quotes marriage advice from the Reader's Digest and his senile father jabbers from the porch swing. When the sheriff questions a young mountain girl named Alma McCain (Tuesday Weld) about a traffic violation, he sees her as a chance-perhaps his last -for freedom, rebellion, sexual gratification, maybe even love. Alma's father (Ralph Meeker) sees a chance for something too: protection for his illegal moonshine still. So he encourages his daughter to seduce...
...love object, a genuine Lolita, but she can make little sense of her rather muddy character. Ralph Meeker, as the ruthless moonshiner, is all sinister smiles and barely repressed violence. The music, sung by Johnny Cash, is slick and unemotional. The main flaw is that the love affair between Alma and the sheriff lacks the qualities of desperation and frustration that would make it convincing. Alvin Sargent's script does not help matters much with such ritual movie Southernisms as "Eat your beans, Grandpa" and "Would you like a Dr Pepper?" Peck succeeds in conveying the sheriff...
Avoiding total legal merger satisfies two groups who have recently expressed considerable opposition to merger. Both Radcliffe alumnae who see their alma mater as representing women's demands in the University, and Faculty and Admi?? threatened by the ?? not worry under...
...divert incoming water. As a result, Russia's caviar output has decreased; one-third of the sturgeons' spawning grounds are high and dry. Meanwhile, most municipalities lack adequate sewage treatment plants, carbon monoxide chokes the plateau towns of Armenia, and smog shrouds the metallurgical centers of Magnitogorsk, Alma-Ata and Chelyabinsk...
Fenno Heath, president of the Yale Glee Club, said that after this issue was settled, the Harvard Glee Club conductor then refused to let them sing "Fair Harvard" at the end of the concert. Instead of both clubs singing both alma maters, Harvard vacated the stage leaving Yale to sing alone. In protest, the Yale men and women sang their alma mater arm-in-arm. The Harvard club then returned to stage and mimicked the Yale club, with an all-male version of the same stunt...