Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Lowell exhorted the graduates in his Baccalaureate address that year to go out and lead the fight. "Never let your own standards be shaken by the experiences around you," he urged. "Let no man despise thy youth, but be in character older than your men."
Everything else is the original goods. Among them is the same sort of part Wayne has been playing since 1929 with the same acting style that his studio biography calls "naturalistic." "In my acting," he says, "I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on...
Fine Froth. Offenbach, a dapper dynamo with a prolific melodic gift and a boffo theatrical sense, made the French comic opera of his time into the granddaddy of today's musical comedy. In Orpheus, his first big success, he took what were then scandalous liberties with the Greek legend...
A Pleasant Tension. The temporary trainees are generally enthusiastic about basic training-perhaps because their "army" life is uncommonly pleasant. They do get lectures on the organization of the Self-Defense Force; they also get a minimum of marching and exercise with wooden bayonets. Their drill instructors are completely out...
Unfortunately the most interesting angle in Hurry Sundown -- the Caine character and his giant industrial complex, symbolic of the sudden change coming over the South in the wake of the war -- is ultimately lost beneath a rubbish of uninteresting violence and melodrama. A trial scene straight out of Perry Mason...