Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vatican has long conceded that the popular printing press can outrun any censor's pencil. Since 1900 the church has banned only 255 books, most of them theological works. (Best-known contemporaries on the Index: Philosopher Benedetto Croce, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.) Responsibility has been shifted to local bishops and, in the last analysis, to the individual to decide whether a particular book can injure the reader's faith. Explains a Vatican book censor: "People have different spiritual allergies...
Southeastern Asia: speakers: Miss Jean Mintz, Professor Rupert Emerson, in Associated Harvard Club Room of Harkness Common...
...wordy book about the era when the movies were learning to talk is a rather strenuous satire, without much warmth or wit. Kelly is a silent-film favorite who makes the transition to talkies with the help and kibitzing of sidekick Donald O'Connor. Jean Hagen is Kelly's beautiful-but-not-so-bright leading lady whose squeaky voice is not O.K. for sound. Debbie Reynolds, the girl hired to do Jean's behind-the-camera talking and singing, finally wins both public acclaim and Kelly...
...bauk, but will he let his son Howard go off to college in Boston? No, he keeps him at home doing chores so he won't have to get a hired man. Thede hates the French Canadians, but he is letting his daughter Jean marry one because he figures no "petered-out American" has the gumption to support her. He knows that his wife Rosa is regularly making love to a younger man out in the woods, but he puts up with it as long as she does the housework...
...that isn't all. Brother Howard has a hankering for his sister Jean, and feels desperate because she is getting married. As for Jean, she feels so strongly drawn to brother Howard that it is all she can do to keep away from him. With Jean married at last and with nothing to look forward to but chores, Howard does the natural thing: he commits suicide with his father's shotgun. When old Thede finds him, he lets Howard have another shell in the chest for good luck. Wife Rosa walks out on Thede, and when last seen...