Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liver and intestines of 114,000,000 people a year, mostly in the tropics. Nor were there any new drugs for the most widespread worm disease, hookworm, which afflicts 457,000,000 people in the world, including 1,000,000 in the U.S. There is, said Dr. Stoll, no ideal drug for any worm disease, and meanwhile the worm population is keeping pace with the human...
...secretary has been trying to get the place declared a neutral international zone-sort of hallowed ground like the Holy Sepulchre. The trouble is that it stands on a hill which dominates the old city and the road to Hebron. And it has a tower 176 ft. high-ideal for snipers. Both Arab and Jewish authorities have listened politely to a committee of worried pressmen. But the answer has amounted to this: O.K. in principle, but we're afraid we can't guarantee that some of our people won't attack the place on their...
...hard to recreate a bygone period in a foreign studio and to achieve much lyrical eloquence when silence is almost as taboo on the screen as in radio. The role of the heroine would have been an ideal light workout for an actress of great sensitivity: Garbo, for instance. Miss Fontaine is intelligent and industrious, but she is never a magician. Since nearly 90% of the picture depends on her, the whole show suffers accordingly. Louis Jourdan is more convincing in his easier role. Letter is a good try, but a disappointing film...
...such. However, the superb comedy antics of Frank Cellier as the befuddled lover-fisherman, and that of Edward Rigby as the village tosspot, deserve singling out for special praise. There is also a spirited young miss named Barbara White, whose freshness and beauty remind us of an old ideal we once had, oh, many years ago. After the Dickens movie, "Quiet Weekend," with its rather ordinary people, should be as welcome as the flowers that bloom in the spring, and just as worthy of notice--not for relief, but for acquaintance...
...Cliffe side of the question do not mean, however, that no possibility of compromise exists. One important factor so far neglected by Provost Buck is the Radcliffe Student Government, which, as the spokesman for 'Cliffe undergraduates, should certainly be consulted, on any proposal such as this. Perhaps the ideal group to investigate and make recommendations about the merger of final examinations would be a joint committee of the Student Government and the Harvard Student Council...