Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results of the discussion were somewhat inconclusive, but sympathy was extended to young and poor collectors, whose synonymity was suggested by the moderator, Theodore L. Feininger. After a brief question period, the guests repaired to the galleries for wine, cookies...
France's Algiers-born Albert Camus (The Stranger, The Plague, The Fall) was a man of the theater long before he turned novelist. As a poor, radical student in 1934, he started Algeria's only theater, for which he wrote, acted, directed. To get experience, he used to play one-night stands all over North Africa, finally wrote three dramas between 1944 and 1949. Fellow actors remember him as pale, sickly, with "an extraordinary radiance." Last week the Camus radiance was back onstage, in one of the year's most exciting theatrical events: the opening in Paris...
...coordination by Robert Elston), is in love with the pert, bouncy girl cheerleader (Nina Wilcox). When $1,500 in fix money is anonymously planted in his overcoat, visions of marrying his sugarplum dance momentarily through Blent's troubled head. Between the girl, the game, and his duty, poor Blent is soon hooping around like a praying mantis about to be devoured by his conscience...
Evil Days. When it was called Massey-Harris, the firm captured a major, market in the late 1930s by coming out with the first self-propelled combine, began manufacturing tractors abroad after World War II, just in time to cash in on rising worldwide demand. But by 1956, poor management, complacency and half-hearted selling had put it far behind competitors. As sales fell, inventories rose so high that it just about ran out of cash...
...poor fellow suffers! The camera follows in fascination as he is ravaged by the conflict between love and duty, country and humanity. In the end, with a gesture of completely incredible nobility, the major betrays his country by permitting the refugees to escape ("I would never have been able to sleep again"). Whereupon the scriptwriter suddenly remembers the freedom fighters, who are permitted to provide the shocker in the final scene. They cut the major down from ambush...