Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elected vice-president is Susan I. Swanton '63 of Henry House; secretary and treasurer are Ann W. Nason '63 of Holmes Hall and Carland E. Crook '62 of Holmes Hall...
...aren't very ambitious to begin with, and once they get on the police force, they get a little orientation but no real training. Usually a couple of officers talk to the new man and then assign him to an older patrolman, who may be a first-class crook...
Died. Harry Frederick Comfort Crook-shank, 1st Viscount Crookshank, 68. rapier-tongued parliamentary leader of Britain's Conservative Party from 1951 till his elevation to the House of Lords in 1955 a 32-year House of Commons veteran whose sardonic debating style elicited from Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell the tribute: "I never knew a man who could say such outrageous things with such charm"; of cancer; in London...
Genet's characters are intellectualizations. In Deathwatch, Green Eyes is the intellectual abstraction of a murderer, LeFranc of a petty crook, and Maurice of a thieving, confused little homosexual. And intellectualizations are not easily translated into flesh and blood. Their conflicts are worked out on a conversational plane, while the real struggles that men take part in cannot be totally represented by debate...
...Purple Noon. The French title, Plein Soleil (probably best translated "Broad Daylight") is more accurate; the film is concerned with a daring attempt to execute the perfect daylight crime. Color photographs of the Adriatic and luscious Marie de la Foret guarantees spectacular footage, and Alain Delon as the top crook turns in an excellent performance...