Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), refuses to let his officers do manual work. The Geneva Convention, he informs Saito, expressly forbids it. Saito smiles. He is a Japanese officer, and he will show the arrogant British who is master...
...youngest of five children born to a traveling salesman, Inge grew up in Independence, Kans. grimly determined to become an actor, saw his dream dissolve in one frantic moment of stage fright three years after he graduated from the University of Kansas (class of 1935). "I played the choir master in an amateur production of Our Town," recalls Inge, "and suddenly I found I was terrified, too self-conscious to ever act again." Later, he spent an unhappy period as a high school and college teacher ("I experienced almost the same terrors as I did as an actor...
...reality is not fiction. The real chauffeur is frustrated in every way. No sleeping with the mistress, no murdering the master--not in this pragmatic world, the British comedy soberly suggests...
...Weiland's master plan, Dave Vietze moves back to defense along with Dan Ullyot. The first line will remain as it is with Captain Bob Cleary at center, and Paul Kelley and Lyle Guttu at the wings. What Weiland is looking for here is more speed along with the added scoring "punch" and the second line with Owen, McVey, and Gillie should provide both. What Gillie lacks in size, he more than makes up for in hustle and quick reflexes around the cage. His alert play against B.U. was one of the few bright spots for the Crimson in what...
...could not prevent publication in the West. Now another furor is brewing over the appearance in Italy of a novel by distinguished Russian Poet-Translator Boris Pasternak. Reason why the Italian publication is "unauthorized"' by Moscow is evident from lines such as these: "Marxism is not sufficiently master of itself to be a science ... I know no current of thought that is more isolated and farther from the facts than Marxism...