Word: knacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winthrop's tutorials are strongest in Gov, Ec, English, History, and Soc Rel, but they are all well-liked. Master Chalmers, always sitting quietly behind the scenes, has an uncanny knack for getting the best men to come to Winthrop House. His ability to get them is one of the reasons why Winthrop's incessant "tables" are so fascinating. No one wants to eat cheeseburgers at Dudley House when he can eat lunch with John Kenneth Galbraith...
...Wesker, "I knew it could happen. I went home and wrote my first play in six weeks." The thunder of Osborne summoned not only Wesker (Roots, Chips with Everything) but a whole cloudburst of writers turned playwrights. Among them: Pinter (The Caretaker), Arden (Live Like Pigs), Ann Jellicoe (The Knack), Brendan. Behan (The Hostage) and Shelagh Delaney (A Taste of Honey). These new dramatists led their audiences out of the drawing room and into the kitchen for a close, painful view of the cynical, life-hungry, postwar generation...
...boarding the Bondwagon three years ago with Dr. No, he has become one of the most successful composers writing for films today. In the past year, his scores have accompanied an impressive flock of first-rate films, among them Séance on a Wet Afternoon, King Rat, The Knack and The Ipcress File. The LP version of Thunderball, released only a few weeks ago, is already high on the bestseller charts, following briskly on the heels of Barry's Goldfinger, which last year outsold all rock-'n'-roll albums except the Beatles...
...final choice is now between De Gaulle and Mitterrand, whom Frenchmen call "le beau Francois" for his looks, "le Florentin" for his political suppleness. One of eight children of a Cognac railroad clerk, Mitterrand climbed to prominence through sheer brilliance and an inborn political knack for being all things to all people. Though his vest-pocket party, the left-of-center Democratic Socialist Union of the Resistance, has never amounted to much, his adaptability shoehorned him into no fewer than eleven revolving coalition Cabinets of the Fourth Republic. For at least two of his Cabinet stints, Mitterrand is given high...
Luckily, Director Guy Green (The Angry Silence, The Mark) has a knack for sustaining the sort of idea that in lesser hands might easily slip from pathos into bathos. Green's style is simple, forceful and true, and he habitually activates a performer's most astonishing inner resources. The prize of his present cast is 21-year-old film fledgling Elizabeth Hartman. Spindly and coltish as Selina, with a plain-pretty face that can erupt unexpectedly into electric beauty, she wins genuine sympathy by playing up the spunk in her role, playing against the saccharine. She is achingly...