Word: erful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Barnwell, the C.O., "is grammar. We don't burden the student with masses of rules and exceptions. Our big ambition is to make a man speak and understand." The speaking begins right in the first class. "Are you a student?" a Danish instructor will demand. "Ja, jeg er elev" [Yes, I am a student], the class must learn to answer. "Is he a student?" asks the instructor. "Ja, han er ogsaa." A class may consist of only one student, is never larger than eight. The men average 30 hours in class and 15 at outside study a week...
Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel, the picture begins with a chance encounter on a Washington-to-New York train between, a tennis player (Farley Granger) and a wealthy, gabby ne'er-do-well (Robert Walker) with a touch of homicidal mania. Granger, in love with Socialite Ruth Roman, wants to rid himself of a faithless wife who is balking at a divorce; Walker would like nothing better than to see his own father dead. Aglow with enthusiasm, Walker proposes that they both commit murder, obliging each other with a friendly swap of victims so that...
...think Mr. Sinclair errs in condemning the "er." It is the only human sound left in otherwise inhumanly machine-perfect performances. Especially in a program like Invitation to Learning, the "er" is a refreshing reminder of the times when people used to translate their thoughts into words...
Armed with a convenient $900,000 inheritance, Ava bribes her rakish ne'er-do-well of a cousin (Melvyn Douglas) to break up Mitchum's home by seducing his wife (Janis Carter)-a job Douglas seems perfectly willing to attempt without pay. But, on the point of success, Douglas accidentally kills his quarry. Mitchum, suspected of doing his wife in, can be saved only by Ava's last-minute confession of her foul scheme...
Fattened out with an Autry-devised tribute to Mac ("The world will ne'er forget him, to him we say well done"), the record was cut the day after MacArthur's speech before Congress. Within 24 hours it was in the hands of California disc jockeys and shortly thereafter in record shops, selling an estimated 25,000 copies a day. Hot on Columbia's heels, seven other record companies got top performers in both barn and ballroom categories to record it; most called on professional lyricists to hoke up the song's meager words. Among those...