Word: attempting
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Realizing this, the University should attempt to duplicate House advantages as much as possible. The problem of a homogeneous Boston group might be relieved if some students in the Houses who wished to experiment with low-cost cooperative living were to be included in the residence. Some geographic sprinkling could thus be achieved. Furthermore, as many graduate student tutors as possible should be attracted into the cooperative houses. The variety of fields represented by the senior common room of the Houses could not, of course, be achieved; but some approximation of the intellectual tone tutors provide might be attained...
Outpouring. All week Foster Dulles, coming back fast from his hernia surgery (TIME, Feb. 23), had been crowded by hospital routine. "You never have a minute," he grumbled to his State Department aide, Joseph Greene Jr. Dulles made no attempt to call Acting Secretary Christian Herter or to mix in State business. He took pleasure in afternoon and evening visits from wife Janet, in a unanimous Senate resolution praying for recovery of "beloved John Foster Dulles," in a phenomenal outpouring of 8,000 letters, telegrams and get-well cards...
...breathless silences, when her man speaks at the other end of the line, by surrounding them with tautly suspenseful music. Instead of using leitmotifs to represent love, abandonment, jealousy, he wrote separate sequences for each of the woman's pathetic appeals-her story of a suicide attempt, her memories of a trip, the pet dog that misses its master. Said Poulenc: "I tried to give the music an erotic flavor to show that the woman aches for the body of the man, that she wants this body once more...
...seems a sensible idea, and it might have been the theme of a sensible attempt at row-house realism, but Scriptwriter Joseph Stefano has loaded this piece of pizza with a mess of indigestible sentimentality, and Director Martin Ritt has turned it out half-baked. In the last half of the story, even Actor Quinn, usually a rock-solid performer, comes apart like a discouraged anchovy...
Expectation of Good. Sigh for a Strange Land is an intermittently successful attempt to share imaginatively what its British author. Monica Stirling, has not suffered-the life of a refugee. Resi. a confused and attractive 16-year-old, flees a country very like Hungary. With her go her schnapps-tippling, aristocratic Aunt Natasha and Natasha's long-ago lover Boris, a trainer of circus horses. The dance of liberty soon slows to the shuffle of Red Cross soup queues, even though the gallant trio refuses to indulge in the occupational pastime of unhappy refugees-back-biting the hand that...