Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replying to the numerous queries put to him during his six hour visit, Feiffer relied on his spontaneous and quick reflexes which, when added to his other birdlike features, gave him a general appearance not unlike that of a chicken hawk on the make...
Riddle of Cruelty. If war was agony to Gray, it was often a lark to Army Historian Love. War Is a Private Affair would make light reading for a bus ride to an induction center. Yet Love, like Gray, has a serious theory about men at war: "A man may deliver his body to the authorities, but he still maintains a will and a life of his own. In most cases he fits his private interest into the world in which he finds himself, but he does not give it up." To prove his point, Love tells ten stories...
...first day at school, Jim's class pays a visit to a planetarium, which the gang decides to make the scene for a little action. Buzzy, stereotyped black-jacketed levi leader of the mob, goads Jim into a switchblade duel. (Stark has a paranoic aversion to being called "chicken") But merely proving himself in this daytime version of kicks is not enough; society demands more...
Meanwhile, Jim Stark has managed to make two friends for his cause, Plato (Sal Mineo) and Judy (Natalie Wood). Plato is the child product of the Age of Analysis with slightly psychopathic tendencies which provide for the movie's fast-moving finish. Natalie Wood provides the love interest...
...honest and respectable convictions, his tactics in support of these convictions have been those of the shyster. The wide-spread opposition to Strauss among physicists stems not only from antagonism to his beliefs, but also--and in the main--from a fear of his methods. In a position to make decisions of the greatest importance to the United States and the world, Strauss constantly refused to make the public a party to any of the broad policy arguments which he arbitrated. His abhorrence for candor is his major fault as a public servant. He cannot be trusted to tell...