Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book is divided into two sections. In the first Kazantzakis sketches the regions and principal cities of pre-Civil War Spain; at the end of this section, the description of a bull-fight provides a broader view of the Spanish national character. A few years after this trip, the author returned to find Spain torn by civil war, to discover "Madrid, once a charming, carefree, voluptuous princess...in flames." The part recording his second journey is more narrative than descriptive, more concerned with national events than with regional characteristics; nonetheless, Kazantzakis movingly paints the changes in the areas...
...priority was raising a library. Pitts armed his students with tin cans so that they could dun Negro families for "a mile of dimes." Bull Connor, then Birmingham's commissioner of public safety, vetoed the drive. "What about all these kids with their tin cans?" Pitts asked, but Connor stood firm, and Pitts had to call off the drive. Incensed at Connor's meanness, people all over the country chipped in books. Yale students collected 6,000 books and delivered them personally; the Miles library now has 28,000 volumes...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, lecturer on Social Psychology, yesterday called the Chairman of the Boston School Committee "Boston's own Bull Connor." He charged the Committee's chairman, Mrs. Louise D. Hicks, with evading and suppressing Negro protests against alleged de facto segregation in Roxbury...
...blistering attack on their performance from Pennsylvania's Wharton business school, and a severe critique of their aggressiveness from the Securities & Exchange Commission. Yet, to hear the leading fund dealers talk at their annual convention in Miami Beach last week, all this was in the past -and the bull was back in the mutual-fund business...
Thereafter, on a predictable split-second schedule, practically everything goes wrong. At the climax, Old Wave Director Henri Verneuil achieves a scene that is a gem of understatement. Plopped down at poolside like a bull walrus minus his tusks and a billion clams, Veteran Actor Gabin blinks goodbye to his ill-gotten gains, filling the moment with memorable stupefaction. Best side bets of Any Number Can Win are glimpses of the human flotsam and jetsam beached on the Riviera, but all in all it is a cinematic gamble that never quite pays...