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Gold of Naples (Ponti-De Laurentiis; DCA). Once there was an aging nobleman (Vittorio De Sica) who, having gambled away the better part of his estate, was registered incompetent and placed in the legal guardianship of his wife. The lady, of course, cut off her husband's funds at...
We know that to achieve this we did not need a complex organization, we did not need secret plotting. The pitiful daily spectacle of the intellectual and moral poverty of our university, the narrowness of horizons of the present Spanish life, were enough to unite us, the young people of...
Upperclassmen have even less opportunity and encouragement to learn new sports. This is unfortunate, especially in an area not entirely conducive to outdoor recreation. The rather pitiful physical condition of many undergraduates might be improved if exercise could be made interesting and useful by offering classes in worthwhile sports. This...
Mr. Graubard's volume is more a series of sharply-drawn sketches than a coherent whole. Those dealing with domestic politics are uniformly good. From the minutes of countless conferences and the sprawling but pitiful left-wing press, the author has assembled what is by far the best existing picture...
Both points are clearly not unknown to the director of the present production, Frederick J. Marker, and to his actors, but not all of them are able to take the necessary countermeasure, which is to seek a new and personal interpretation whenever possible. Very fortunately one of them does; Lisa...