Word: crux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Closing at week's end, it told a melodramatic movie yarn that-loaded down with symbolism -made a lumbering stagecoach. The yarn, laid in mountain country, concerned a crusading young schoolmaster's struggle against the local villain who tyrannized over people, gobbled up property, caged up animals. Crux of the struggle was a hunt for an unworldly youth fleeing with a $900 inheritance. As a western, Jaguar lacked life because even its gunplay suggested a morality play. As serious drama, it was so portentous that every little movement had three meanings...
...present bickering system is the crux of the "100 percent argument." Until he is elected to a club, Prospect Avenue, where the clubs are located, is out of bounds to all underclassmen...
...once, the experts all agreed on the crux of the matter: only diet will take weight off, and the diet should be tailored to each patient's bulging figure. Diets that take so & so many days are of no lasting good. The patient must be of a mind to reduce, and determined to stay reduced. Said Manhattan's Dr. Haynes H. Fellows: "The obese patient must be told frankly that he or she has a lifetime problem . . . He can't reduce and forget it. He has to keep it in mind and do something about...
...House plan still has kinks in the but these will probably be settled by discussion the traditional Harvard way. Although many flowery phrases have eulogized the system, perhaps one tutor his the crux of the matter when he said. "Houses are thus samples of Harvard criticism, but the idea of the Houses is creative. The problem is adjustment...
...generally consider myself one of the less vociferous elements in the Catholie Church, but I find that the state of discussion brought forth by President Conant's objections to private education has failed to make clear what seems to me to be the crux of the Catholic position. That position is very simply that Catholics would rather not send their children to a full-time educational institution that does nothing to teach them the most important thing they have to learn. The religiously neutral school envisaged by the advocates of universal public education is an impossibility. To believe that citizenship...