Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consolation for the U.S. is that Kelley and Costes may get another crack at the Finns in the Olympic Games at Melbourne. But this is dampened by the fact that there are several runners back home who can beat Marathon Victor Viskari. "We run good because there isn't much else to do," explained one of the Finns. "Besides, we are very close to the Russians...
...weekend passes, do four hours of compulsory study instead of two on week nights if they lagged in studies. This was too much for the brawny 'Bamans. Above an entrance to the dorm appeared a sign: "Don't talk to the prisoners." Growled a disgruntled senior: "This isn't Russia." Then, after a meeting, 92 of them packed bags and stomped out of Friedman Hall, vowed not to return until the rules were eased...
Ever discover a comet? Experience isn't always necessary. M. K. Valnu Bappu, an Indian graduate student, proved that a few summers...
...play starts when the hero, Dick Dudgeon, who is the black sheep of a pious New England family, gets a legacy. This isn't right, for black sheep don't usually get legacies and heroes don't usually triumph at the beginning. When Dick later decides to be heroic he does so just because he feels like it, and not for the love of the minister's beautiful young wife, as he should. And when the elderly minister should become heroic, he's a coward. In the end, however, the minister appears with pistols, and both he and Dick Dudgeon...
...enough in the group scenes that some of the wittier lines go by too fast. This weakens the performances of the main characters--Gaudentius Lee in the title role, John Timmons as the minister and Lucia French as his wife. Of these three Lee seems the best; Lucia French isn't always convincingly confused as a woman who can't understand heroism without renunciation...