Word: chores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood Johansson has completed another acting chore in Columbia's All the Young Men. He plays a Swede who joins the U.S. Marines to get his citizenship and is shipped to Korea. So excited is Columbia Bigwig Sam Briskin that he hopes to cast Ingo in a western...
Serving as a visiting professor is no new chore to Duroselle: besides the U.S., he has taught in Germany and Italy as well as his native France. In the summer of 1958 he was a visiting professor at Brandeis, and it was then that he was asked to come to Cambridge as a Fall Term replacement for William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History...
...disconnection itself has its purpose, and gives an all-inclusive quality to the film; yet it is also distracting and contributes to the film's great weakness: its general diffuseness, its inability to command sustained attention. For Pather Panchali, remarkable as it may be, is something of a chore to sit through. The viewer receives the impression that he is watching a document, an amazing document to be sure, but not an entirely absorbing one--and thus his eyes keep drifting over to the blue rimmed clock at the side of the screen. One can see the beauty...
...Boyd-Carpenter, 51, Minister of Pensions. Grandson of the "silvertongued" Bishop of Ripon who was Queen Victoria's favorite preacher, Boyd-Carpenter is an effective verbal duelist in the House of Commons, a stickler for detail, and a vigorous administrator who is likely to get any particularly tough chore facing the Macmillan administration...
...tractor, special zeal on a lathe, or talent and diligence at street-corner rallies. But in Warsaw last week, the rulers of Communist Poland were grimly facing up to the fact that to all but a handful of their subjects party membership had come to be nothing but a chore. On a recent journey through the Polish countryside, a Western traveler found that in village after village party headquarters had vanished, closed up for lack of members. Explained one peasant: "You can't be a party member and expect your neighbors to trust...