Word: brigand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their bloody battle, both Scranton and Dilworth tend to make each other out as the worst sort of political brigand. Yet neither is anything of the sort, and indeed they have much in common. Both have deep family roots in Pennsylvania. Both were born to wealth. Both are highly educated-and their training includes graduate degrees in the hard school of Pennsylvania politics. Finally, both Dilworth and Scranton are deeply concerned about their state's situation...
...third offering of the Harvard Summer School Players' season at the Loeb Drama Center. The play, set in North Africa, features Joanne Hamlin as Lady Cicely Waynflete, celebrated British traveller, the role Shaw wrote for British actress Ellen Terry. Tom Griffin plays the tital role of Brassbound, brigand and smuggler, who is in reality the nephew of Lady Cicely's travelling companion, Sir Howard Hallam, a famous English jurist, played by Samuel Abbott...
...podium decorated with a plaster bust of himself. Like his country, Hoxha is full of surprises. Instead of being a rough, tough mountain chieftain, he is a former schoolteacher and was the pampered son of a well-to-do Moslem merchant. Though he has the mentality of a brigand, his manners are those of a cultivated bourgeois and reflect his education at universities in France and Belgium...
...entirely because his films arrive here two at a time. The latest batch: The Millionairess, Shaw's old joke rejiggered, with Sellers as the Oriental medic and Sophia Loren as the moneypot who tries to tempt him; and Two-Way Stretch, in which the comedian plays a jowly brigand whose plot to steal ?2,000,000 is goofily thickened because he is already in the nick for another...
...entirely because his films arrive here two at a time. The latest batch: The Millionairess, Shaw's old joke rejiggered, with Sellers as the Oriental medic and Sophia Loren as the moneypot who tries to tempt him; and Two-Way Stretch, in which the comedian plays a jowly brigand whose plot to steal ?2,000,000 is goofily thickened because he is already in the nick for another...