Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must take issue with your recent editorial, "Dust to Dust," proposing abolishment of the Student Council. This letter is a personal view and does not represent Council policy or members. Certainly some of the criticism is justified, on the basis of performance of individual Councils, but not on the basis of the Student Council as an institution...
...most part fully believable in a believable if distant situation. One of the three, tough guy Bogart, illustrates the motif of the film, that "gold can destroy men's souls," his degeneration coming almost in retribution for his claim that he is immune to the poison of the yellow dust. The other two seem ready to yield also, but they do not, and we are left with the feeling that it is somewhat gratuitous that they did not. Sometimes empathy with Bogart's characterization is difficult, but in the end Director John Huston gets his point across...
...early convert to Islam, Othman ben Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...
...launching rockets of the second Soviet satellite could put 112 Ibs. on the moon. This is enough weight allowance for a powerful atom bomb, which would make brilliant fireworks if it exploded on the darkened face of the moon, and might stir up a conspicuous storm in the dust that covers its surface...
...beautiful, and with what elegant sexuality she twists about in tight-curving, fishtail skirts. She is accomplished in a way all her own, seldom raising her voice, never neon-lighting her effects. With equal seductiveness, she spoofs mechanization in Push the Button, or great-men-turned-to-dust in Napoleon, or sings woman-to-woman in Ain't It the Truth or woman-to-man in Take It Slow, Joe. As a much earthier seductress, Josephine Premice jiggles and jabbers with fine mocking verve...