Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genial "howdy" to privates and generals alike, disarms even the Air Force, yet not before he has reduced it nearly to shambles. To begin with, Will's sergeant appreciates his desire to be helpful. He "promotes" him to PLO (permanent latrine orderly). This arrangement backfires, however, and the plot of the comedy becomes a plot against Will--to get him through the classification tests. Confusion reigns, and the Air Force totters. Even the Reserve Officers Training Corps receives its share of jests...
...arriving shortly before midnight. By next daybreak, reporters and cameramen had already begun to gather on the front lawn. At 7 a.m., Lyndon Johnson emerged, and conducted newsmen on a tour that included the house where he was born, his first school, and the family cemetery. On a vacant plot next to the graves of his grandparents, Johnson marked an "X" with his foot. "Sixty days ago," he said, "that's where I thought I was going...
...plot itself is lucid. In late nineteenth century Paris a general, his wife, the Countess, and her admirer affably intrigue. A pair of diamond earrings, which precipitates every crisis among them, exchanges hands constantly. Each gentleman strives to impress the Countess, either by giving them to her or by taking them away, until the earrings themselves come to symbolize her love...
...like an adventure serial in which the characters and plot remain the same, but the conflict deepens. With wit and a careful aim, Professor Bestor once more lashes his favorite villains, the "professional educationists," who, by flooding the schools with "life-adjustment" courses and forcing teachers to master "the mere vocational skills of pedagogy," deprive students of the "intellectual disciplines that have rightly been considered fundamental in education." But, as its title implies, The Restoration of Learning balances negative criticism with a number of positive suggestions for educational reform. They are apt to be as controversial as anything Professor Bestor...
...gentlemen have a good deal of trouble finding a plot, but they finally settle on a story about a young dressmaker, played by Dany Robin, who becomes amorously involved with Michael Auclair, a small-time crook with, we are told, a brilliant mind. Hildegarde Neff is also around, as a circus rider. both she and the pony are bare backed...