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These performances are certainly worth seeing. But it is the few scenes (like the two I've mentioned) that make El Cid some thing special. All in all, there are worse places to spend three hours these humid, humdrum days than the H.S.T. One word of warning, however: Cambridge kids evidently agree with me, and they're going in droves; so every show is a little like a Saturday afternoon Kartoon Karnival. But you can just throw a pop-corn box back at the little bastards, and bury yourself again in the Infinemascope screen and Delightful Air-Conditioning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'El Cid' | 8/9/1962 | See Source »

After the long, humdrum postwar years of peacetime garrison and army schools. Smith was marked as a comer in 1931 by Lieut. Colonel George Marshall, then assistant commandant of the Army's infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga. A decade later, Beedle Smith was at Marshall's side, as Secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when the U.S. entered World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The General Manager | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...Such humdrum realities get little attention from Sukarno, a self-confessed romantic who said last year: "I belong to that group of people who are bound in spiritual longing by the romanticism of revolution. I am inspired by it. I am fascinated by it. I am completely absorbed by it. I am crazed. I am obsessed by the romanticism of revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: Absorbed, Crazed & Obsessed | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...next two defendants had lived in the humdrum London suburb of Ruislip as Peter and Helen Kroger. Their modest home was littered with the latest espionage devices, ranging from microdot readers to long-range radio-transmission equipment. The Krogers claimed to be New Zealanders; actually they were U.S. Citizens Morris and Lona Cohen, with a long history of Communist ties. They had dealt with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the executed atom spies, as well as with Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, now in Atlanta federal penitentiary serving a 30-year term for espionage. The Cohens were each sentenced to 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Guilty of Spying | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

Would lace my humdrum life with champagne bliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 3, 1961 | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

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