Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Swedish Compliments. These days were wonderful fun, and Rossby's weather system worked. It became the model for use by fast-spreading U.S. airlines. When not too busy, Rossby kept up with the hard-boiled pilots in jazz-age drinking and other festivities. Most of them envied his way with women. "It was his Swedish manners," says one of his friends of those days. "He'd hold the hand of a nightclub hat-check girl for several minutes, ladling out those Swedish compliments. If it was any other guy, the girl would have called the manager...
...performers acquit themselves with varying degrees of success. Colgate Salsbury, in the mountainous title role, takes a rather original approach to his part. His Hamlet is not so much a melancholy Dane as strong hero caught in an overwhelming situation. This helps make fast-moving parts of the play more striking but tends to weaken the inward-turning soliloquies. Hamlet's towering intellect comes through, but the troubled depths behind it are not always apparent...
...Falk's Claudius appears unnecessarily stiff. Certainly the King should be regal, but that need not restrict the actor who portrays him to the single tone level and rate of delivery. Somewhat the same is true of Robert Jordan, in the part of Laertes. He tends to speak too fast to let his lines be readily understood. Lisa Rosenfarb, the Queen, happily avoids these mistakes. She speaks poetry perhaps better than anybody else in the cast. But in the other aspects of performance, John Fenn, as Horatio, surpasses her as well as most of the other actors. He gives Horatio...
...added, however, that "events are moving too fast in the international community to allow for the glacier-like speed with which protection of some important human rights has been developing in some states...
...Jumbo's pulled to within a point 28-27, as Shaw paced the rally with 7 of his 17 markers, before the Crimson took charge in the closing minutes of the first half. Using the fast break after grabbing a rebound, the varsity tallied 12 points to their opponent's two, for the halftime 40-29 score...