Word: inheritence
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...youth corps, has been denounced as a pro-Communist and an anti-Semite. U.S. Catholic journals-including the respected Jesuit weekly America-have editorially attacked the play, apparently in hopes of forestalling a Broadway production planned for next February by Producer Herman F. Shumlin, whose last play, Inherit the Wind, was about the trial of a freethinker...
...cooks his breakfast. She is also an accomplished hostess, and confesses: "I love politics, because we are not the worrying kind. My husband is even more of an unworrier than I am." The Homes have three grown daughters and a son, 19-year-old Lord Dunglass, who will eventually inherit his father's suspended titles-unless he too wants to be Prime Minister...
Maid for Murder brims over with Establishment accents, sex, slapstick, guitar music and Tom and Jerry homicide plans. Anna Karina is back, this time a Corsican in frequent deshabille, out to inherit Oberon Manor from a pair of bumbling bachelor brothers. A tubby reporter for True Women arrives: "She looks more like four women," observes little brother. It turns out that "Aunt fell down the well and kicked the bucket," among other calamities. One picturesque heroine and half-a-dozen giggles in Maid for Murder barely rescue British comedy from a stained reputation...
...Britons are avid to explode. "We are in a mess about our education," says Sir Charles Snow. "There is too little of it. It is too narrow both in spread and concept." Under fire is the sheltered snobbery of Oxford and Cambridge, whose 18,000 students so easily inherit British power and glory. Equally resented is the impersonal lecture system at the 19th century urban redbrick universities, whose 46,000 students often feel like social second-raters. Higher education has become a major British political issue. The Conservative gov ernment is about to produce a report, three years...
...movies because they seemed to him unnecessarily stupid. Rashomon was his tenth picture, and since Rashomon he has produced a relentless succession of masterpieces. Seven Samurai (1954), considered by many the best action movie ever made, is a military idyl with a social moral: the meek shall inherit the earth-when they learn to fight for their rights. Ikiru (1952), Kurosawa's greatest work, describes the tragedy and transfiguration of a hopelessly ordinary man, a grubby little bookkeeper who does not dare to live until he learns he is going to die. Yojimbo (1962), conceived as a parody...