Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plays the roue. Granted, the role is not a very taxing one, but Edgerton delivers all there is in it. The quality which lifts him so far above his colleagues is timing. He is an actor of some experience, and realizes that the funniest line can be ruined with poor timing--an axiom which the others demonstrate from time to time...
...unnecessary, for in regard to the Summer School itself, there is little concrete to criticize. One must discount the few who would turn up their noses at punches and forms sprawled over the grass, and although one observer noted that the School was "a world where all taste was poor taste," there were few at or around the School who would agree. Whatever students' reasons were for attending the school (the News poll indicated that most were academically motivated, but thought their classmates came for social reasons), most students benefitted in some way from the experience. Dean Bundy noted...
Whether the market is at a record high depends on which yardstick is used. Like the Dow-Jones, Standard & Poor's index of 425 industrial stocks was close to a record at 52.06, only a shade under the alltime high of 52.18. On the other hand, the New York Times index, at 556.67, still had a good way to go to its 590.96. Moreover, the averages are heavily weighted in favor of leading blue chips, most of which have risen in the bull market. Thus they do not show that many another stock has declined. Some...
...part of everyday life -along with Christian miracles, Saracen tales of derring-do, and glittering fantasies of the U.S. way of life. The background against which these visions take shape is composed of blasted heaths and stark, sun-baked mountains; in the foreground are a rich aristocracy and poor peasantry whose lot is still hard despite the great strides toward prosperity made by Sicily in the past decade. Between the two extremes roam the brigands and the men of the Mafia, who from time immemorial have existed by making the "protection" indispensable to prince and peasant...
...page without losing a scrap of myth, beauty and horror. In Christ Stopped at Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), Levi dealt with life in Lucania, an even poorer region, and the book brought him such fame that he now writes with a special sense of mission about the Italian poor. His weaknesses are 1) too much self-consciousness in his pleading, 2) too little skepticism respecting the left. Yet few will read Author Levi's Impressions of Sicily without feeling a forgiving sympathy for both these weaknesses...