Word: dead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets the "I'm-sorry,-but-she's-out treatment any more than three times on one girl, he might as well give up," advised a Wellesley telephone operator. 'We have 'dead-beat' lists and when a man calls up, we look up his desire's name. If his is next to it, we just hand him the standard routine...
Eleven distinct proposals for honoring the University's World War II dead will confront the joint Associated Harvard Clubs-Alumni Association War Memorial Committee when its meets tomorrow in Eliot House, according to a statement yesterday by Henry L. Clark '11, secretary of the Committee...
...problems appear around the perimeter of the film's main dramatic theme. A religious allegory, "The Informer" can be thought of in terms of sin and redemption, the redemption coming in the last agonies of death. The end comes in a church, where Gyppo obtains forgiveness from the dead man's mother, and with a cry of what may be ecstasy as well as pain, dies. The psychological, religious, and metaphysical themes are deeply intercating, but on top of everything, "The Informer" is a great and dramatic story...
...retrospective show at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The 55 temperas and gouaches on exhibition were sharply drawn, flatly painted reminders of the Sacco-Vanzetti and Tom Mooney cases, the slum children who scrabble for happiness in high-walled playgrounds, the gnarled and stunted poor, the dead on the Pacific beaches, the ruins of Europe, the faces of the starved...
Midway in the war, little Jones is browsing happily around in Astyparaean, a language no one has spoken for 50 centuries. There he encounters an old god, name of Zotz, who confers on him a weird and deadly power. Any insect, beast or man that Jones points at falls in a hideous faint; if he both points and says "Zotz!" the pointee drops horribly dead. Jones naively goes to Washington to offer this handy power to the Armed Forces. The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing...