Word: casts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she finished the director spoke to the walls, "Beauty, horror, and an almost subconscious guilt. Thank you again." She stared questioningly into his face. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "The cast will be posted Monday night," and smiled...
Still more incredibility is cast upon the retreat thesis by the angry reaction from many quarters to the American Association of University Professors recent statement of principles. The Association urged for academic due process and said that Communist Party membership or invocation of the Fifth Amendment was not sufficient ground for dismissal without an investigation and consideration of any mitigating circumstances and the individual's own record. The press indignantly demanded a blanket rule approach, however, ignoring these more human considerations by saying that the Party is a proven conspiracy and therefore all membership in it is conspiratorial...
Most of the cast seemed infected by the professor's indiscretions, overdoing the broadest points, throwing away the few finer ones. Sylvia Stahlman (Eurydice) had the prettiest voice, at its best in The Old Time Religion ("Bacchus my king, O let's be romantic"), and Hiram Sherman (Jupiter) hammed his part happily, right down to losing his hula skirt. Musico-medienne Paula Laurence was the most professional of all as Miss P. (for Public) Opinion, "a vestal virgin with a bachelor's degree." Her message: break as many commandments as you please, except for "Thou shalt...
...years that followed, Yang Kwei Fei and the emperor lived together in the light of love; but all the while, though neither of them knew it, the light cast a lengthening shadow across the land. In gratitude to his favorite, the emperor had made her former master his prime minister, and that rapacious man had made the name of Yang a byword and a hissing in every corner of the empire. At last there was a revolution. The emperor's own guard put the tyrant to death, and demanded the life of Yang Kwei Fei as well. The emperor...
...Pale Cast of Thought. In Kansas City, Mo., a would-be stickup man waved a gun at Grocery Checker Mrs. Thelma Adams, thought things over for a moment, fled the store after muttering: "No, I guess it's not a holdup...