Word: precious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Uncommitted", published this month, Kenneth Keniston '51, reports that disenchantment among today's academic youth is more prevalent than at any precious time in history...
When he wasn't prowling for precious minerals, Copper Millionaire Sir Alfred Chester Beatty, 90, was gleaning more obscure treasures, such as a 1260 manuscript of the Rubdáiyát of Omar Khayyam, and some priceless 3rd century papyri of the New Testament. "In 51 years of collecting I've accumulated quite a few fine Oriental texts," the U.S.-born British magnate mused proudly. Then he announced that he is bequeathing the 3,000-volume accumulation, valued at $8,000,000, to Ireland, where he has had a home for 18 years, because "the Irish...
Director David Wheeler struggles manfully with all this and at least makes watching the play tolerable. But he can't supply suspense and emotion where they don't exist. His actors read the overly precious lines as realistically as possible, and the humorous scenes are more successful than the painfully low high drama. Paul Benedict, with a comic deadpan, plays the resistance fighter husband of a wife from a crumbling aristocratic background. He's terribly funny but not strong enough to make his convictions plausible. Lisa Richards as his wife does an outstanding job with a whining, pathetic character...
...ming, Red China's ambassa dor in Djakarta. Three times in a week, he showed up to express his grave con cern at the Indonesian government's recent antisocialist behavior. If the Bung was being honest, he must have expressed grave concern right back, for there was precious little he could do about the disturbing turn of events. The army was clearly in control...
Flamencos & Astronauts. Even deter gents, capital offenders of eyes and eardrums, have begun to inject a light touch. Lever Brothers' Breeze includes a towel as a premium in its package, and spends much of its precious 60 seconds showing a man flamencoing in the bathroom, snapping the towel about his shoulders and abruptly turning into Jose Greco when the spirit moves him. Presumably his wife is Breezing the dishes, but she never appears...