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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serviceable, exclamatory prose. But he has written a novel as well as history, and no amount of research can help him in his fiction. His hero, Ari Ben Canaan, has all the two-dimensional subtlety of a sheriff in a TV western; his heroine, Gentile Kitty Fremont, is so often petty-minded and petulant that some readers may suspect Author Uris of a bias against shiksas. Despite its partisan trimmings, Exodus in large measure tells how the Israelis won their homeland. The tepid love story of Ari and Kitty can be skipped...
...Colonel. Consistently funny and often touching is this lesson in lifemanship taught by a meek, ingenious Polish refugee (Danny Kaye). His unwilling pupil: a blustering, medieval-minded Polish officer (Curt Jürgens...
...Plume de Ma Tante. A mad, charming, Gallic revue that uses bad English when it has to, but more often the international language of leers and leaps, pratfalls and double takes...
McClellan was fairly effective off the defensive backboard, but was usually prevented from grabbing offensive rebounds as he was often boxed out by Amherst's big men. He did, however, play the entire game, showing unexpected stamina and more poise than ever before...
...preliminary contest, the Amherst freshmen defeated the Yardlings, 71 to 56, in a fast and often sloppy game. Gary Borchard was outstanding in a losing cause, scoring 21 points and doing a solid job on both boards