Word: davide
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possibility of this plan was also admitted by the Master of Winthrop House, David E. Owen. Although he "would regret opening the door to a mass moving out of the Houses," Owen felt that some sort of liberalization, depending "on the degree of overcrowding," might be feasible...
Planes & Camels. For the French side of the story, a CBS crew headed by Paris Correspondent David Schoenbrun got pictures of the French forces-in planes, weapons carriers, on camels and afoot-swooping down on a gunrunning caravan in the desert, raiding a burned-out farm settlement for hiding rebels (they found one suspect), seizing a cache of bombs in a raid within Algiers' famed casbah. Schoenbrun underscored the heavy threat of terrorism in daily civilian life, the heavy commitment of France's money and prestige, the huge stake of the 1,000,000 French and other European...
...plot is much the same as the old. A rich young girl (June Allyson) collects a dockside derelict (David Niven), takes a liking to the fellow, and offers him a job as the family butler. To everybody's surprise, he buttles superbly, bottles seldom, and battles tirelessly for the best interests of his employers-a group of people about as easy to live with as a family of full-grown crocodiles. In the end, of course, the butler has the crocodiles eating out of his hand, and in the final frame the charming little beast who found him snaps...
John Hallowell as the more gallant of the gentlemen-footmen is a very amusing fop indeed, and Robert Gamble hits a perfect note as his bumbling companion. David Landon as the annoyed father is also most believable and amusing...
Materialist Morality. Author Rand's philosophy, hammered home in endless hectoring and lecturing, seems based mostly on Nietzsche's inversion of all Christian values, with an admixture of Adam Smith economics and David Hume ethics, both carried to absurd extremes. The greatest sin is following the Sermon on the Mount. Selfishness is the highest good, the spirit of sacrifice the worst evil. In shrill outcry against government and religion, Author Rand defines taxes as "protection money" paid to "gangsters," and the doctrine of Original Sin as responsible for destroying Man's "reason, morality, creativeness, joy." She frenetically...