Word: derringers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doctor No. Ian Fleming fans will get more than their money's worth in this somewhat overdone dollop of derring-do about British Agent 007, a mad scientist and an atomic furnace. Sean Connery is properly urbane and unbelievably brave as James Bond.
Originality comes especially dear in retelling wars that are neither small nor remote enough to make individual actions seem romantic. Ghastly statistics simply smother any kind of gaudy derring-do. For a battle narrative set within the slaughter of thirty million human beings, the courage and suffering of ordinary people...
Pearson's diplomatic derring-do won him the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for "his powerful initiative, strength and perseverance displayed in attempting to prevent or limit war operations and restore peace." It was a high point in his career, but Suez also cost him his immunity to criticism carried...
All this gives promise of, nothing more than a predictable tapestry of hairbreadth hurry and Navy derring-do, suitable for eventual framing in Hollywood. But like many another literary ship before her, the San Pablo offers a readymade image of a larger society. Both as a licensed literary microcosm and...
Thurs., Sept. 20 Wide Country (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). PREMIÈRE of a new series based on the derring-do of Rodeo Champion Mitch Guthrie.