Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture is almost rescued, however, by several searching performances and Miss Gardner's physique. The latter is well known. Humphrey Bogart, Edmund O'Brien and Marius Goring account for the talent. Bogart grows in stature with each new picture, and is most bengin and forceful as Maria's director and only friend. O'Brien is the press agent, and is skillful enough to play a man, undergoing startling moral growth in about forty-five minutes of film time with precision instead of only vigor. Goring is a lecherous South American millionaire in a very small part--which shows...
...election Problems. Bill Jenner was in rare form. He quoted John Stuart Mill, Edmund Burke and Martin Dies. He roared in a voice obviously intended to be heard all the way back in Indiana. He stomped his pointed shoes. He held out his hands and quivered his fingertips. The Watkins committee, he shouted, came close "to recommending the punishment of a member of this body for fighting an alien conspiracy to destroy our nation...
...story: Adam Calhorn Shaw (Edmund Purdom) has everything a young man could want-prominent family, imminent fame, eminent income. Two young women (Linda Christian and Jane Powell) want not only him, but his attributes, too. Linda is a nice, safe society type, but Jane (the Athena of the title) is something else again. She lives with grandma (Evelyn Varden) and grandpa (Louis Calhern) on a Southern California hilltop. Grandma, a buxom old beldam, wears a flowing white burnoose. Grandpa is a gay old (78) caloric crank...
...Edmund Burke Principles...
...announced that since the student body "has recently been liberated from the terror of the left and their Libertine Consorts, and inasmuch as the policies of the prior administration have been deservedly repudiated by the forces of reason," a league would be formed, dedicated to the "abiding principles of Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre...