Word: botheration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast. Director Lang tells his story mostly with the camera, and gives the picture a brisk pace that helps conceal its slack spots. Anne Baxter makes a thoroughly attractive murder suspect, and Richard Conte as the newsman is such a demon columnist that he apparently never even has to bother to write a column...
...continued. "Just a minute," said the March Hare, "you've got to realize that that's part of a novel." "That isn't my fault," said Alice. "If they print them as excerpts they should be able to stand by themselves. If they can't stand by themselves, why bother printing them? In a chase, you've got to feel something about the person being hunted. You've got to want him to escape or be captured. In this story, though, you don't know enough to care one way or the other. And that ending--nature's quiet disturbed...
However, we sometimes wonder why we even bother saying all this. For, when the rain does stop and Spring does arrive in Cambridge, the 'Cliffe girl will discard her knee sox and overshoes for short sox and dirty sneakers. The cumbersome raincoat will disappear, and lo!--we will find beneath it the grubby button-down shirt or the over-sized sweater...
Richard B. Baumgartner '54, co-chairman of the elections committee, called this the "smallest total number of petitioners in recent memory." He added that the general lack of enthusiasm is "quite understandable" since "few seem to want to bother with all that work...
...plants and the birds (many a migrant didn't even bother to go south this year) were not alone in their response to earth's premature warmth. College and high-school basketball tournaments were just beginning-in Indiana, no fewer than 755 high-school teams were playing off for the state championship-but youth was acting as though winter was already gone. In Omaha, for instance, high-school girls were strapping dog collars around their ankles-the right ankle if they were "slaves to love," the left if they were merely hopeful...