Word: prone
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this long, foolhardy movie version of the book, Writer-Director Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry) introduces Jim (Peter O'Toole) as a rather winsome, late Victorian Walter Mitty. A grand kid, but accident-prone. On a giant split screen, Jim visualizes such wild exploits as saving his captain from buccaneers. And the audience is warned by this literalism that Writer Brooks in tends to steer through Conrad's prose with stopovers in all the wrong places...
...seems to stem from a feeling of nonacceptance by the adult world. "I'm affecting millions of people's lives in some way," he complains, "but I'm not supposed to be human. We're the only ones communicating with the teenagers. They are so prone to anxiety and destruction, and they can't intellectualize their wounds. Breaking up with a boy friend is just as realistic to them as it is to a 30-year-old. Our music helps them to understand. If we're not what's happening today, then what...
...problems of the sophomore year, and calls for increased work within the Houses to help sophomores with academic and personal problems. Pusey noted the appointment last spring of George W. Goethals '43 as Assistant Dean of the College to "help the House staffs to identify early those sophomores prone to academic or personal troubles...who may be helped by sympathetic early attention...
...fact is largely playing his own game in the Middle East with Russian marbles. Cairo is caught in a serious financial squeeze that shut down stock exchanges last week, endangers Nasser's ability to pay his ruble debts or his other borrowings. In strife-torn Yemen and coup-prone Syria, Russian aid has been largely dissipated in a sea of domestic troubles, but Syria has obliged by going markedly Socialist (see following story'). Iraq used Soviet weapons to dispose of Moscow's man Kassem. Pro-Western Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whose oil revenues make...
...Church of England's canon law decrees that babies should be christened within a fortnight of birth. Parents are prone to stretch the deadline a bit, but now the whole practice is under fire. Three vicars have resigned from the Church of England, announcing that they no longer believe in infant baptism. Three others, with covert support from dozens of Low Church vicars, have informed their bishops that they will baptize only believing adults...