Word: americanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...felt, is the attitude of contemporary law schools. Such institutions should recognize two functions, he said. First, that of helping students develop their own critical capacities, but, second and just as important, that of exercising a professional responsibility by investigating and criticizing actions of the Court and interpretations of American...
...Freshman touch football, Chuck Mercer and Gavin Gilmore paced Grays Hall American League champs to first place over the National and Continental League pennant winners...
...British probably could have made an excellent film out of The Mouse That Roared; Columbia pictures and Director Jack Arnold have made a good one. A frothy comedy about a diminutive principality in Alpine Europe--the Duchy of Grand Fenwick--the film is good satire on the American military, world diplomacy, and the arms race...
Based on a novel by Leonard Wibberly (which I haven't read but have been informed is "deeper" than the movie) The Mouse tells the story of how Grand Fenwick--its economy threatened by an imitation American wine that drives its own product off the U.S. market--plots to make war on America, lose, and, as is customary with vanquished U.S. foes, be economically rehabilitated. The triad of hereditary rulers who run Grand Fenwick--creaking and Victorianesque Grand Duchess Glorianna, imperious Prime Minister Montjoy, and meek but good Tully Bascomb, a combination game warden and defense minister--are all played...
...strength of the film lies in its patchwork humor: rock 'n' roll in an air raid shelter, the Fenwickian girls waiting for the victorious American soldiers with signs, such as "Gum Chum," and Big Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...