Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Huston says that he "was pretty certain" that I was Traven himself [the author of the novel], which would mean that he had "hired" Traven for $100 (not $150 as he says) a week, that same Traven who a few months earlier had been offered between $750 and $1,000 a week...
...best case he could for U.S. democracy. He pointed to U.S. generosity with money and supplies. But Washington gave no public sign that it would back the De Gasperi government up to the hilt against any attempted Communist coup. And yet a victory for Communism in Italy would mean that the cold war, which the U.S. once thought it was winning, would get uncomfortably warm...
...holes cut in ... the front door. 'What are those for?' he asked. 'To let my cats out,' was the reply. 'But why won't one hole do them?' 'Because,' the old gentleman retorted emphatically, 'when I say Scat! I mean Scat...
...inevitable result of a student body of 5200 is a shortage of required texts in the multitude of University libraries. Though such paucity does not necessarily mean that some volumes cannot be obtained, it requires a man to set aside one or two hours for library haunting to gain a source book. The seven House libraries were originally designed to carry a stock of required books for most courses, and thus to eliminate long nocturnal walks to Widener, Boylston, and the Union. In this capacity the House libraries are actually a dismal failure...
...Gioconda Smile" used a murder incident merely as vehicle to carry the usual Huxleyan theme that lives not lived on both the sensual and rational level fall short of fulfillment. As a result the characters were not rounded, but rather each represented a perversion from Huxley's "golden mean." To develop the movie out of such a story it became necessary to make al the characters just a bit more human than they had been originally. Thus the film lost some of the story's meaning as the murder plot became an end in itself...