Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pain when you got hit," Murphy says. "Hold still--still. There. Even if it is broken, the pain won't be bad." As the injured man will tell you later, the pain usually isn...
...course in radio; yet Harvard and Radcliffe surely have students interested in radio vocations. There is no faculty member available to coach debate and other extra-curricular speech activities; yet Harvard has debate councils and there are probably students interested in other types of speech contests. In fact, there isn't even a field of concentration in speech, even though Harvard could attract gifted students who are interested in a speech major. A need exists for expansion of the speech curriculum in at least these areas...
...Taft so cooperative? Friends last week remembered a 1948 Taft speech at Washington's Burning Tree Club. Democrat Steve Early arranged the party to honor Taft, who had just lost his second campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Taft rose to his feet and told his friends: "It isn't the honor or the glory of the office, the yacht and the White House and all the protocol. I believe deeply in my principles, and I want to put them into effect. The office of President has the power and the prestige to put those principles into effect...
...honestly do a show of quality, then you are constantly frustrated. In three days we have to shoot an entire 26-minute show. And we do it just like the movies, with closeups, the whole works. But you know that isn't enough time. We start shooting promptly at 9 a.m. and never finish until 6. And still we don't have enough time. Some scenes that you see on the screen have never been rehearsed. I just read the script and they shoot...
Still, the old saying that "familiarity breeds contempt" just isn't true these days. The undergraduate succumbed first to the Radcliffe girl's charm, although he attributed her overall mark superiority to her "learning everything by role, spewing it forth at exams, and getting A's, or that failing, sidling up to an instructor, displaying a little leg, and getting...