Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lloyd Jordan shifted yesterday's workout to the morning hours and decided to forego the training table meal in view of the Thanksgiving holiday. It was a routine two and one-half hour non-contact session, with the varsity setting defenses against the Bulldog offense as handled by the jayvees. Punting and kickoffs were also stressed...
...Last Holiday" is a remarkable film. It has abundant wit and abundant warmth; it has a wealth of acute characterization, and, woven skillfully among all three, it has profound tragedy. In short, "The Last Holiday" has about everything that a film needs, not the least of which is an excellent cast, headed by the versatile Alee Guinness...
...Byrd, a bachelor played by Guinness, is told that he has a fatal disease and but a few weeks to live. Byrd has neither family nor friends to regret, only unfulfilled desires. He leaves all he has--his job--and resolves to spend a last holiday at an exclusive seaside hotel. There he is offered "influence, riches, love and kisses," none of which can be his. "The Last Holiday" has another and a last tragedy, an ending tense because of its substance and its sudden inevitability...
...Last Holiday" has a great deal to say, but not once does it speak with the offensiveness of a "message." Byrd is a nice guy, and, to quote Leo Durocher, "nice guys always finish last." A lot of charlatans surround this nice guy, a lot of charlatans...
...October Silveira's duplicate proposal failed to pass and was dropped in favor of the single-holiday proposition...