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...WIDESPREAD organized cheating that plagued Physics S-1, "Elements of Physics," this summer is disturbing on a number of counts. It is disturbing that students were callow enough in their pursuit of grades to take advantage of the course's innovative, low-pressure structure to get advance answers to its tests. It is disturbing that medical school admissions are so stringent and quantitative that pre-medical students--who made up almost all of Physics S-1--feel the need to cheat in order to raise their grades from...
...used to be a fashion model, after all), but she has no resources as an actress. She runs short of breath in the middle of lines, and gives no appearance of understanding the words she blurts out in little hiccups. Daisy is supposed to be unspoiled, cunning and callow-and blithely attractive. Shepherd projects instead a taunting sexual hostility that turns Daisy into a little bitch goddess on a pedestal...
...pretends to be a dying invalid. In his high-romantic imagination, he is in thrall to the memories of a young girl (Diana Van Der Vlis) he waltzed with 17 years ago. St. Pé's dream girl appears, only to run off with his callow aide, and the general is left alone in the dusk...
...Devils is Wilson's double essay on Two Neglected American Novelists- the fastidious Henry B. Fuller, who chronicled the collision of Europeanized culture with a bustling new America in turn-of-the-century Chicago, and the flamboyant Harold Frederic, a foreign correspondent whose fiction looked back on the callow, small-town life of upstate New York during and after the Civil War. In making a case for both novelists Wilson uses his well-known technique of writing criticism that draws on the resources of fiction and history...
Junior (Horst Buchholz) is a callow youth whose mother (Yvonne Mitchell) is fiercely ambitious for him. She indignantly accosts her estranged husband (Nigel Patrick) one evening while he is conducting ("Johann, I must talk to you"), and despite his protestations ("What-in the middle of a waltz?") demands he pay more attention to Junior who blanches in the background. When Papa proves uncooperative, Mother arranges her son's debut herself. "How quickly can you get together an orchestra?" she asks Junior, who assembles 15 pieces in a trice and becomes the toast of Vienna almost as fast...