Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intentions, The Little Hut is built on a desert island. Three shipwrecked Britishers live there: Philip, his wife Susan, and best friend Henry. Clothed in the dinner jackets and evening gown they were wearing when the ship foundered, these little corners of England brave the balmy wilderness with a pre-dinner coconut milk hour and post dinner coach shell fingerbowls. The total effect is Robinson Crusoc as revised by Noel Coward...
...University of Alabama, ranked among the top ten in pre-season polls, went into its first game against little Mississippi Southern full of confidence, reeled off the field the victim of a stunning defeat. Alabama rolled up a 12-6 score in the first half, then faded and lost...
Nowadays Chapin lives with his wife and two sons in a pre-Revolutionary house "on a lot of land" in Glen Gardner, N.J. Seven mornings a week he paints, and "since the house is so old, there's always work to do in the afternoon. I do enough gardening so the boys can have fresh vegetables. Sometimes I play a little tennis. It's a very pleasant life...
...Heritages Resurgent. The sons of the revolution appear to have learned to cherish equally their Indian and Spanish Christian heritages. Having accepted their past, they are ceasing to brood over it. Today it is fashionable in Mexico to collect pre-Columbian art, to dabble in archaeology, to wear Indian costumes and to study Indian customs. At the same time the Roman Catholic Church, long suppressed and persecuted by anticlerical revolutionists, is resurgent in Mexico. All over the country new modern churches are rising to replace those wrecked in the revolution. Nuns and priests wear their habits and cassocks in public...
Martin Luther (Louis de Rochemont Associates) has already broken attendance records in Minneapolis, where it had a special pre-release run. Partly responsible for its success is its surefire subject. Hollywood might long ago have turned out an epic on the life of the great reformer if it were not for an understandable reluctance to jump into a religious controversy...