Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people are . . . Hard news has come to mean hard to digest, hard to read and hard to get anybody to understand. I submit that foreign news is becoming local news, and unless we wake up to that fact, we're living in a dream world of the past...
...convict (Sterling Hayden) into the 1927 flood and tells of his heroic struggle to save a pregnant woman (Geraldine Page) before society thrusts him back in the pen with no thanks and ten years extra. Director Frankenheimer prodded Convict Hayden through three days' filming without sleep, drove him past machine-gun fire, dumped him in the 168,000-gallon tank to contend with tidal waves, fog, wind, rain, flood-swept houses, trees, telephone poles, cows, chickens, and a mob trying to beat him to death. His head bloodied, utterly bushed, Strong Man Hayden finally dropped Actress Page while lugging...
...feel that it is a splendid thing to be a writer and that little or nothing is added to it by writing." She has been "affectionately described as a bitch" by at least one correspondent who had suffered an ill-defined grievance in one of her articles. Judging from past form, she fully expects her latest books to catch it from all corners of the "boggy little land." But among less partisan readers, they are sure to rank as two of the grandest japes of the season...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, head tutor of the Government Department, said that the Department has "informally changed" the structure of tutorial groups in the past year, organizing a number of mixed groups in various Houses. The change was made "because Radcliffe girls seemed to feel discriminated against, and also because the mixed groups seemed to work better," he said...
...Choral Society here recently. The inevitable comparisons between him and Professor Woodworth will probably be being made for some time to come, for their approach to choral singing and style of conducting are quite different. The emphasis on diction which was a trademark amounting almost to a fetish in past years has been relaxed, allowing for a smoother, more fluid performance, but sacrificing the percussive element to some degree. There seems to be less attempt at choral "effects," which provide both interest and distraction, in favor of more concentration on the overall shape of long sections and on greater continuity...