Word: max
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Last month 15 of West Germany's most eminent professors rose in protest. Writing to every member of the Bundestag, they urged the outlawing of an atavism that is "utterly incompatible with our contemporary conception of morals and ethics." The professors, including Nobel prizewinning Physicist Max Born, got nowhere. The Bundestag is laced with the Alte Herren (alumni) of dueling societies. Fumed one Alter Herr: "Don't talk about things you don'tunderstand...
...pupils had a field day. With nonstriking teachers unable to keep control, the kids tossed erasers and toilet paper out the windows, threw eggs and rocks at the pickets, used their fists on everything from parked cars to one another. Board of Education President Max Rubin called the strike ''reckless, irresponsible, immoral and illegal." But the striking teachers stood their ground. 'The only way we can get dignity and respect is to show the city and the state we mean business," said one picket. ''They thought we were weak...
...next picture, De Sica will direct Sophia in a loose adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's The Condemned of Altona. The screenplay has perhaps the darkest plot that has ever thickened. A young German (Max Schell) feels so guilty about his part in the war that he becomes a dope addict. Various women try to cure him with love, first his sister, then his sister-in-law (Sophia Loren), but not even that much sex can help him. He has a fight with his ex-Nazi father (Fredric March), then a reconciliation. Then both men commit suicide...
Gordon, who was assisted in writing the play by novelist Max Wilk, described A Ton of Bricks as a "criticism of 99.9 per cent of the research we do in this country, which is mediocre." The comedy assumes that "competence is a means of hiding mediocrity" and preaches the "necessity of risking the big mistake...
...Amid the debris is Murray's prize possession, his twelve-year-old ward and nephew Nick. Winningly played by Barry Gordon, Nick is polysyllabic without being precious. Murray and Nick share a zany palship. On a crowded elevator Murray levels an admonitory finger at Nick and says loudly: "Max, there'll be no more of this self-pity. You're 40. It's about time you got used to being a midget...