Word: jim
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...lower middle-class family in Madras, Rahman (whose real name is A.S. Dileep Kumar) grew up listening to his father's tiny but unusually diverse record collection, consisting of just three, wholly different LPs?one from China, one from Latin America, and the third by American country balladeer Jim Reeves. Rahman's Hindu family was also devoted to a local Muslim pir, or saint, who was a Sufi dervish. Sufis share the same devotion to Allah as other strands of Islam, but none of the rigid stoicism. Instead, Sufis believe the way to God is through vehement, ecstatic self-expression...
...inter-act musical choices, selected by Jim S. Patton ’04, are inspired: popular wartime radio pieces such as Irving Berlin war songs and Marx Brothers routines complement the action and make the intermission an interesting part of the play in its own right...
...shot by Stanley Kubrick in 1957 (when he still cared about human affairs), is one of the most unillusioned films about war made in this or any other country. Derived from the French soldier mutinies in the Vimy Ridge in World War I, the screenplay by Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson is a paradigm of military disfunction. An ambitious general, intrigued by an offer of promotion, leads an already battle-weary battalion on a suicide mission. But the battalion falls back from their advance. Enraged, the general orders three men shot for cowardice as examples for his entire army. During...
Number one man John Thornton led a singles barrage that saw only one decisive Crimson loss. Number two man Jim Levy scored a three-set victory over his opponent while fifth and sixth men, Jeff Wiegand and Bill Cole, posted decisive wins in their matches...
...Jim Levy and Dave Chase provided the only solace for a poor doubles day as they won their second-ranked match...