Word: avoider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Julius Caesar is not the obvious success of Marlon Brando's diction lessons. Far more remarkable is the film's faithfulness to Shakespeare. As this suggests, Julius Caesar is perhaps even more notable for what it is not than for what it is. The film leans over backward to avoid any suggestion of spectacle, and there are no panoramic shots of Rome, no overblown crowd scenes, no technicolor sunsets to draw attention from beauty of language and intensity of feeling. Although the scenario discards some minor scenes, few of the cuts are unkind, and the film happily needs credit...
...adopted in 1950, students drafted before the end of a term could be graded on the results of hour tests, or in any other way their instructors saw fit. Dean Bundy said that the action taken yesterday will reduce the number of students who pass up a deferment to avoid taking a final examination...
Seated one day last week in his huge office in the Palais Schaumburg, Chancellor Adenauer made a temple of his fingers and, chatting with TIME Correspondent Frank White, allowed himself the luxury of some mild self-satisfaction. "I cannot avoid smiling a little when, as chief of an occupied country, I sit down with the leaders of the occupying nations, such as Mr. Eden and M. Bidault. In spite of the fact that Germany hasn't yet full sovereignty, its economic and political impact is fully felt in world affairs...
Meek little Jimmy Alcock, 54, was always a man to avoid trouble. But trouble sought him out at the Lancashire aircraft works, where he was a $25-a-week semiskilled laborer. When Britain's engineering (i.e., machinists') unions called a nationwide one-day "token" strike, Jimmy wondered what to do. He did not be long to the engineering union, and his own General and Municipal Workers union was not involved in the strike. He asked his union what to do. He was told to go to work as usual, and Jimmy did. He was the only...
...Frank Abrams, 64, who worked his way up from a $75-a-month job as a draftsman for the Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) to the $1500,000-a-year board chairmanship, announced his retirement. To avoid being "just another guy on the street," Abrams laid plans to keep busy by: 1) taking an assignment with the new Hoover Commission to streamline federal civil service. 2) helping to raise funds for colleges (he founded the Council for Financial Aid to Education...