Word: nat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody Loves an Albatross has as its hero-heel a man who can kiss his own reflection in a mirror and really mean it. Nat Bentley is a television writer-producer in Hollywood, but his most inspired production is his ebulliently maleficent self. He is an imp of distilled evil. He is a triple-tongued double dealer, a glib Vesuvius of fantasy and falsehood, a perpetual-emotion machine with nary an honest feeling...
Played with prancing, gleeful guile by Robert Preston, the role of Nat Bentley is as magnetic as sin. Playwright Ronald Alexander has surrounded him with zany astrologers of the marketplace-hack writers, foxy talent agents, dubbed-in laugh effects men-who cast horoscopes under the sign of the dollar to see if the public will prefer the TV story of a myna bird that refuses to talk or a chimpanzee that plays Lady Macbeth. The dialogue is more quippish than witty, but the hip mass-media-men-at-work lingo scatters the laughs over an occasional drab patch of script...
...Years of Nat...
Doty also said that a number of members of the committee have consistently urged that students be required to take two years (instead of the present one year) of lower level Nat Sci courses. But he indicated that this idea is not likely to win approval either...
...carrying out the same rituals? Furthermore, many freshmen find they have several courses in common with their friends. This situation, almost unavoidable with the General Education requirements, can lead to a kind of academic communism which is very comforting to a frightened freshman. "All my friends were taking Nat Sci 5 last year," one sophomore said. "We studied, worried, and rejoiced together. The biggest problem was whom you were going to sit with in class...