Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera--but a one-act opera. Fellini has made his movie with careful attention to every detail except the patience of his audience. But his sombre exhaustiveness gives La Strada an essential truthfulness in spite of the melodramatic violence. The stark, stony backgrounds, for instance, of which we see so much: no carpenter could have put them up, no paper-mache could duplicate them. They are real...
...itself, the jet transport age would not do much to solve the world's problems (military jets are already old hat), except, possibly, to put Secretary of State John Foster Dulles more places more often. But its advent was another milestone in the oldest and most adventurous struggle of all: man's indefatigable drive to conquer his own environment...
Even those who did not like the dictator had to concede his staying power. He had won the Civil War (with German and Italian help). He kept out of World War II (except to send his Blue Division to fight against Russia). And he had avoided the postwar debacle of his fellow fascist dictators. Though denounced by the U.N. in its early days, Spain is now a U.N. member. And largely because of letting the U.S. build vast air and naval bases in Spain, Franco has in recent years got more than $1 billion...
...major American names, and Howard Mumford Jones's course has a comprehensive syllabus. And there are American authors in Brower's modern poetry course, Chapman's 160 and Guerard's Comp. Lit. But the college just does not have solid coverage of the whole field of American literature. Except for Lynn's two conference-group half courses, there are no intensive studies of particular periods of American writing, and there is none at all of the dovetailing-dates historical blanketing of the subject that every British period is treated...
...formal grades will be issued under the present system, except to Seniors and Juniors participating in Social Relations 99, Tutorial for Credit. All other Honors candidates will receive either "honors," "pass," or "fail," accompanied by a report from their tutor...