Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps publication of all the names was beyond anyone's control-but that was small consolation to the people accused. Some may have been Communists as charged, some innocent. But none had his day in court to make the convincing reply that fair play entitled...
...evidence that a base for democracy exists in South Korea. Along with their colorful squabbles, legislative and executive branches are also capable of cooperating to strengthen that base. This week's dispute did not halt work on the new land reform law which by a shrewd double play may give South Korea a large, stable class of small farm owners, plus a business class that it now lacks. During Japan's rule almost all Korean industry and large areas of choice farmland became Japanese-owned. Farm families are 70% of the population, and three-fourths of them were...
...there are any stalwart Law School worthies unintelligent enough still to be sweltering within reading distance of this item who desire to play a canto or two of "ring around the habeas corpus," or "tibia, tibia, who's got the fibula" with a trio of Cornell Medicos all for the love of a lady, let them apply forthwith to the CRIMSON Building...
Juiciest plum is Tracy's role as Arnold Boult (in the play it was Holt), a self-made, Canadian-born tycoon whose greatest pleasure in life lies in spoiling his only son. Young Edward, who never appears in the film, is actually an ingenious peg on which to hang a full-length portrait of his egotistical father. Boult's love for his son is really love of self; his determination to make the world Edward's oyster thinly disguises his own appetite for power...
...lonely evening as obsessive reminders of the experiences his characters have evaded and the responsibilities they have shirked. A girl is haunted by the ghost of her mother's neglected lover; a playwright dreams of a creature who, unlike the actress in the role, knows how to play his heroine; a scruple-torn pacifist meets the stern spirit of his strong-willed military ancestor; a young man abandons his girl friend to consort with the ghost of a woman he has never met; two old maids gain a sense of vicarious lawlessness from the ghost of an ancestor...