Word: paula
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paula (Columbia) works up a rich soap-opera lather over the problems of its heroine (Loretta Young). She runs down an orphan boy (Tommy Rettig) in her car, and the boy becomes mute as a result of the accident. Childless Paula adopts the boy and sets about teaching him to talk again, although she realizes that once he regains the power of speech he may identify her to the police as the hit-&-run driver. To complicate matters a bit more, the slightest scandal would ruin the chances of Paula's husband (Kent Smith) becoming dean of his college...
Will Tommy talk again? Will he inform the police about Paula? Will Smith be appointed dean? Paula breathlessly asks and laboriously answers these momentous questions...
...Weakling is a sterner story, and plainly a parable of humanity caught between competing ideologies. "To make hate," says Mauriac, "is comforting. It rests the mind and relaxes the nerves." And Paula Cernes, a middle-class girl married to a decayed baron, has been making hate for 13 years. She lives in a tangle of venom with her husband's family, and despises her son Guillaume, a backward child, because he is so much like his father. To spite them all, Paula sends the boy to take lessons from the local schoolteacher, an open Communist. The schoolteacher brings...
Phoebe Stone '55 and Paula Trygstad '53, spokesmen for the petitioners, explained that general feeling throughout the college was that ballot counting had become too secretive, and that many students were not aware of procedure in elections...
...President elected for life, drastic limitation of voting rights, and a three-chamber Congress, including a strong Chamber of Censors-also chosen for life. Colombians rejected the Liberator's plan, went along instead with the local-rights doctrines of Bolívar's estranged lieutenant, Francisco de Paula Santander, father of Colombia's Liberal Party...