Word: muste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal of the role. Each performance lasts eight hours, during which the Christus, after carrying a heavy cross, must hang upon it for 30 minutes...
...pragmatists, who had had a vast influence over education in the U.S. for many decades, held to their basic proposition that men must study the facts at their command, test them in the light of science and their own experience and plan their conduct accordingly; it was up to each generation to decide for itself...
...educators chimed in with protests. To John Dewey, the split between Hutchins and himself was "the cleft that now marks every phase and aspect of philosophy. It presents the difference between an outlook that goes to the past for instruction and for guidance, and one that holds that philosophy . . . must pay supreme heed to movements, needs, problems, and resources that are distinctively modern...
...Berkeley, California's owlish Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf admits that it is one of the reasons for the widening gap between football's haves and havenots. In preparation for a game, he asks his scouts three short questions: "How can we win? Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces to & fro overseeing the whole production. "By Friday, the hay is in the barn," he says, "We can't play the game for them...
...junkyard of old sports movies. When Rooney starts working in Thomas Mitchell's garage, that pulp-story fixture, the star driver with the mean streak, turns up every few minutes to trade bogus-looking punches with him. Some good dirt track races go sour because the drivers must constantly snarl, wave and shake their fists at each other. After winning a few big races, visualized with the weary device of flashing sports pages on the screen, Rooney's head swells, he hits the bottle, is ostracized for crashing into his buddy, and then travels the rest...