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...exchange of views was the second presentation in the series of Lemann Lectures on the marriage of the educated woman. "Taking off from where Bettelhem ended," the panelists spoke largely out of personal experience. They assumed at the outset that most of the 'Cliffies listening would like to work sometime after they were married...
...outset of the vast trackless movie, when T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) and a guide drink at an oasis, a rifle shot cuts down the guide. It is Sharif who has thus spoken; the oasis is his. Lawrence adroitly talks his way past this crisis and proceeds with Sharif as his new guide and eventual friend. For the remainder of four hours-through thick, thin and thaumaturgy-Sharif stays close to the side of the English Enigma. Women who have seen the picture say that they go away thinking about the fine performances of O'Toole, Alec...
...significance was clear. The liberal minority was not going to be dominated by the Italian Curia, at the outset had demonstrated its parliamentary ability. Vatican II was clearly going to be a true parliament of the church...
Underdog from the outset, Jock Sturrock and his Aussie crew nevertheless made Weatherly work for her victory. Gretel was plagued for much of the summer with mechanical difficulties--she snapped her boom only a few days before the first race...
...organization man right there." Marks's organization man is anybody who will not rock the boat, either from fear of being noticed or hope of future pelf. But by the time Mandel is through with him, he has become a somewhat more complex conformist. At the outset Marks is a reservist with a wry eye for the shorebound "aye, aye" jargon of the peacetime Navy and a fondness for clean shirts and amenable girls. When a Navy pilot at Sims Field (near Jacksonville) commits suicide, Marks is detailed to make a routine investigation...