Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...near future, look for some market-research survey to come up with these conclusions: To whom will cryobiology appeal most? Middle and upper-class agnostics and atheists. To whom will it appeal least? Nuns (who aren't a heck of a good market anyway). Who will benefit most? Lawyers, existentialists, loan companies, adaptable morticians. What group will be most resistant to it? Eskimos. To whom will it all be one big joke? Those who finally develop the knowledge to thaw us out and the common sense...
...porcelain sparkle that is Pinter's cache. But from time to time the actors forget they are in a Pinter play and try to make us understand what they are feeling. When that happens torpor floods the stage and it seems that the puzzling plot and symbolism just aren't worth the trouble...
...most glorifying encomium is not sufficient praise for the astronauts' tenacity, gallantry and courage. On television, their ardent patriotism was spoken of in a seemingly apologetic manner. In this day and age, there aren't enough heroes to emulate, and when someone has to apologize for patriotism, then our country is in a sad state of affairs...
Harvard's squash team, which obliterated Dartmouth yesterday, is back in the running for its sixth consecutive national championship. National honors in the gentleman's sport aren't nebulous debates like football, but are fairly cut and dry because all the good teams are in the East and play each other during the regular season. When the perenially favored Crimson was victimized by screaming Annapolis galleries and dropped a 6-3 decision to Navy last month, it looked as if the Midshipmen would steal the crown...
None of these will be new, either (though it's true there aren't many spy-westerns hanging around). Every thing has been done before, and in nine out of ten cases by Alfred Hitchcock. But if the writers and directors of spy movies feel free to borrow from The Lady Vanishes, Notorious, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North by Northwest, and on down the line, they have almost universally suffered by the comparison thus brought upon themselves...