Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years old here in Boston, I used to spend hours writing stories, I used to write poems and stories, I did a lot of writing, you know. Even at that age I'd write these long weird stories and send them off to agencies. As fast as I sent them out, they sent them back. You're young, you don't get too discouraged, anyway. I could write, I mean I always wanted to write, so when I was in show business I started writing skits and shorts, and things like that, plays, you know playettes, blackouts, they call blackouts...
...there are two major questions facing the Harvard harriers. One concerns the ability of sophomores Dave Pottetti and Tom Spengler to handle the crowded conditions and fast early pace of a large championship meet. Both reacted well in the Heps, finishing fifth and sixth, respectively. But there will be four times as many runners today, and more experienced runners have been known to get lost in the five-mile shuffle...
...those who care, this year's sobering-up session goes under the name How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It's a fine musical and always has been, therefore a joy to behold. Frank Loesser's songs remain smart and fast, and the Abe Burrows-Jack Weinstock-Willie Gilbert book might have been written by bonafide comic geniuses. The story, it is true, proves nothing of anything, but for beauty of construction and quantity of laughs it can't be faulted...
...Like most of the other 24 pictures he has directed (among them: Madigan, Riot in Cell Block 11), this one is the sort of gritty cops-and-robbers movie that audiences take for granted. Coogan's Bluff has all the qualities that distinguished Siegel's previous efforts: it is fast, tough and so well made that it seems to have evolved naturally, almost without benefit of cast, crew or rehearsal. Those who are willing to look beyond this carefully nurtured air of artlessness, however, will see some of the best American moviemaking of the year...
...pieces, diaries, letters and odd bits on diverse subjects that most hold the mind. Orwell was a classic Englishman, full of quirks. This shines through every line he wrote, whether on the puzzling sex life of the common toad who "salutes the coming of spring [and] after his long fast, has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic towards the end of Lent," or on the "modern habit of some writers who describe lovemaking in detail. . .It is something that future generations will look back on as we do on things like the death of Little Nell...