Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...o'clock one morning last week a military airplane from Algiers quietly set down on Corsica, the small Mediterranean island from which Napoleon Bonaparte sallied forth to win an emperor's crown. Out of the plane stepped Corsican-born Pascal Arrighi, a French National Assembly Deputy and passionate adherent of the two-week-old Algerian insurrection. Barely 13 hours later, 36-year-old Pascal Arrighi, at the head of 250 Corsica-based paratroopers and a mob of 10,000, seized control of the island capital of Ajaccio. From the balcony of the Ajaccio Prefectural Headquarters a local contractor...
...Huey Longish red-neck politician's rise and fall. Skidding between 14 sets under the glaring lights, fretting actors stumbled over camera cables. Before banks of baffling screens and switches in the darkened control room hunched wild-haired Director Sydney Lumet ("Places, dears. From the top, daddy-O, and punch it like there's no tomorrah...
Near Lumet, Susskind, scribbled notes on weak spots ("Need more sex chemistry between Ann and Willie . . . Can't see the gun in the assassination scene"). The hours dissolved in one, two, three rehearsals. Lines were furiously added and subtracted, camera shots sharpened. "Suddenly it's 9 o'clock," says Susskind, "and you can't go home...
...first prize, two-thirds of the income from the fund, went to Anita O. Bullard '61 for an essay entitled, "William Blake and the Case against 'Bacon, Newton & Locke...