Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more Biblical exegesis by the box office theologians of Hollywood. A freewheeling, full-color CinemaScopic plunge into the anachronistic past, the film is based on the parable of the prodigal son according to St. Luke, but the scenario is jazzed up with additional story by a trio of latter-day prophets (Maurice Zimm, Joe Breen Jr., Samuel James Larsen...
...broad jump with a leap of 23-5 1-4, failed to win either of the two hurdles races, finishing second in each. Joel Cohen was fifth in the highs and third in the lows. Cornell's Dick Matthewson won the former (14.7) and Navy's Wally Mosson the latter...
...opponent like Mr. Buckley takes his turn at the plate. One example--and there are many others--of the former characteristic is the Liberal hue and cry, usually pursued to a sickening degree, whenever Joe McCarthy was alleged to have stepped on a pink toe. An example of the latter characteristic is Mr. Gwirtzman's report on Bill Buckley's lecture. Mr. Gwirtzman tried his best to discredit the seriousness of Mr. Buckley's intent by inflating a few casual remarks about who would or would not shake hands with whom to the status of a main character...
First place in the Greater Boston League will be up for grabs this afternoon at 4 p.m. when the amazing varsity baseball team meets the strong Boston College squad at the latter's home field in Chestnut Hill...
...provided a Lucullan feast of varying moods, from the poignant ending of the courtesan's part ("For me, too, prodigious Rome/ Could not protect from prodigious Rome") to the heartbreaking aria of the bereaved fishwife. The fine unison chorus at the end was as rousing as a latter-day Verdi's, and the pure major triad that sang out as the curtain fell was a real shocker...