Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreign diplomats who work with him. Sympathizers to Israel consider him one of the five ablest diplomats in Washington; opponents call him a nuisance or a menace, but none dispute his cleverness. "Eban is super-able," said one diplomat, a neutral. "He fences a beautiful duel with words...
...Government Department have scheduled respectively Arnold Toynbee and Andro Siegfried to speak tonight at 8 p.m. As a reader of the middle class Luce publication, Time, I wonder if these schools haven't been unduly influenced by that magazine's expose of the current NBC-CBS Television talent duel, which involves putting their respective strongest Nielson-rated programs on at the same hours. Perhaps all can be explained in that the Government Department, although late in arriving on the scene, is waging a big campaign to get the confused undergraduate to switch his channel, for once "tuned...
...long, tense duel begins, wit to wit and will across will, between the embattled householder and the leering principle of unreason that fists in his refrigerator and lords it on his hearth. Worse still, March soon realizes that the law is no less his enemy than the outlaw; for if the police find out where the criminals are hiding, they are sure to come after them, and when they do, Bogart & Co., as promised, will make sure that March and family die first. The man of the house stands alone, and if he falls, his family falls with him. What...
...real weakness is the film's direction, done by Max Ophuls. Because the picture does seem to have a theme running through it, its light-touch scenes are somewhat distracting. His conclusion, however, achieves just the right degree of understatement. The two men duel, one gun is fired, and the Countess, who is rushing to the scene, is stricken by the shot's implication. Yet had the movie not been underplayed, this ending by contrast would have been twice as forceful. As it is, The Earrings of Madame de . . . is simply unfulfilled...
About 110 prospective freshman oarsmen turned out last night in Newell Boathouse for the opening meeting of the Yardling crew season. "It's the smallest showing since I've been coach," commented Bill Leavitt, whose last year's freshman crew won all its races except the Yale duel. Practice will begin almost immediately...