Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first crucial tests when he reached Cambridge was learning to cross a street alone. Back home in Scarsdale everybody drove. "I didn't know how to use a cane," he recalled. "I used to wave it over my head, utter a few prayers, and run." He made one attempt to get a seeing eye dog, but gave it up when Helen (his dog) objected vocally to Professor Alfred's rendition of Beowulf in old English...
Guenther said that his report, to be presented in early February, would attempt to draw up a practical plan for coed dining which would not cause overcrowding or financial loss at either Harvard or Radcliffe. "The most important difficulty is whether Radcliffe can sustain the financial difficulties," he said...
...build up illusions of the graciousness of the Administration," James T. Kilbreth '69 said. "The Administration failed in its attempt to suspend students only in the face of strong opposition from students and Faculty," he added...
...defeated John Smith-Chapman, Canada's number two ranking player and Sam Howe, the United States' number one ranking player, each by the score of 3-1. Nayar had defeated Sam Howe last year in the Canadian Nationals; consequently, the former Yale great changed his strategy this year. He attempted to outshoot Nayar with lethal reverse corners and precision drop shots. Nayar proved this to be a tactical error, as his great chasing game forced Howe to attempt "dangerously accurate" shots and often to hit them into...
...Diabolik, or for that matter anything else by Mario Bava, Italy's greatest hack (Black Friday, Planet of the Vampires, Kill Baby Kill). In the tradition of Edgar G. Ulmer and the more outlandishly-scripted Charbol melodramas, Bava films wretched nonsense with great style, color, and originality. Don't attempt to inject meaning into this tale of a Super-thief and his sexy girlfriend who inhabit a sumptuous underwater playground which makes Dr. No's look like Rindge Tech. It doesn't matter: film-making as slick and out-landish as Bava's is quite infectious, and Danger: Diabolik proved...