Word: clive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themes are entirely absent-but they must be read between the lines. Hypotenuse in Playwright Greene's triangle is stolid, sluggish Dentist Victor Rhodes (Sir Ralph Richardson), whose single-minded concern for teeth drives his wife Mary (Phyllis Calvert) into a shabby affair with a frustrated bookseller, Clive Root (Paul Scofield). In a scene of Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly offers to share...
...novel, Vanbrugh spent a profitable war as a wingless wing commander in the R.A.F. and ends his career as a superior flunky in the household of a Texas aristocrat. Says he: "I see my destiny, I recognize my genius ... but England, I have not abandoned you. No more than Clive or Hastings, Raffles or Lugard . . . have I deserted...
Many University students and alumni are associated with the Service, which was formed last fall. Paul E. Sigmund, Jr. 6G, teaching fellow in Government, and Clive S. Gray 1G, former International vice-President of NSA, are members of the executive board. Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, is a member of the Service...
Speaking on behalf of the NSA International Commission, Clive S. Gray 1G, former vice-President in International Affairs of NSA, disagreed with Leland's interception of the referendum's results...
...When Clive Staples Lewis, 59, England's top amateur theologian, reread the psalms, he was bothered by the cursing. In 109, for instance, the psalmist prays that an ungodly man may rule over his enemy and that Satan may stand at his right hand, that his enemy's ""prayers be turned into sin," that the enemy's days be few and his job be given to someone else, that when he is dead his orphans be beggars, that no one should pity him, and that God always remember against him the sins of his parents. Even more...