Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaflets distributed at Radeliffe last week, the Dunster House Committee said that they originally intended to be included in the spring exchange approved by the Faculty last week. But they charged that the plan died when a Faculty committee "issued an impossible-to-fulfill ultimatum to Master Pappenheimer and to Dunster...
...little late to do anything about Dunster not being included. They rejected us out of fear that the whole exchange would be rejected if the plan became too involved and complicated." Alvin M. Pappenheimer, Master of Dunster House, said after the vote...
...Robert Heinlein, usually master of quick exposition and blood-and-blasters, wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, and it is fine. It is not about the toys men play with, or the fall of governments. It presents a new man and a new experience-and a world is built around it all in staggering detail, not as "background" but as part of a totality...
...when the couple decided to sell the canvas to make a down payment on a car, they found quite a market. Bidding at Sotheby's stopped at $537,600 for The Temptation of Eve, authenticated as one of the few existing works of the 16th century German master Hans Baldung. "Obviously," said Cattrell after the sale, "we shall be able to afford the fare back to Edinburgh...
...edits his film like Hitchcock, cutting to unexpected angles for jarring surprise effect, and stages a body disposal scene that is reminiscent of Psycho. The performances are restrained and electric with tension, like the film itself. La Femme Infidèle does not have the full impact of the master's touch, but at least it demonstrates the benefits of the Hitchcock tutelage...