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Fanny-or Bust. The David Merrick who arrived in New York in 1939 looked like the last man in the world who would ever conquer Broadway. Shy and alarmingly thin, he had a bleeding ulcer and shed "a faint greenish glow." But he was shrewd, and he decided to case the joint before he tried to take it over. One day he called on Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and invested $5,000 in The Male Animal. Merrick made $18,000 on the deal, and by watching rehearsals and eavesdropping on conferences he also accumulated valuable experience. Six years later, after...
...game. Actually, Rupp admits, the length of the holiday wasn't entirely his idea: the floor at Kentucky's Memorial Coliseum was being refinished. "But there's no question about it," he says, "I've slowed down. I'm not out to conquer the world any more-just to win all the basketball games my team plays...
...people and divided government. And, important as that was, they helped preserve a far greater stake than South Viet Nam itself. As the Japanese demonstrated when they seized Indo-China on the eve of World War II, whoever holds the peninsula holds the gate to Asia. Were Hanoi to conquer the South
What the existentialists emphasize about man is that he, alone among other beings, is a decision-making creature blessed, or cursed, with the freedom to choose among a variety of possibilities in an absurd and mysterious existence; to be truly human, man must accept this freedom and conquer the anxiety and despair that threaten it by "commitment" to a way of life. This message can be bracing, notably in the religious version of existentialism, in which the commitment is directed toward a spiritual goal. It can also be nihilistic, notably in the atheistic version, in which commitment is demanded...
Patch of Blue flirts openly with the issue of interracial love, only to leave it unresolved in the last reel, and the film's message becomes almost immaterial. In their quiet, tender scenes together, Hartman and Poitier conquer the insipidity of a plot that reduces tangled human problems to a case of the black leading the blind...