Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atmosphere is nicer in the house dining halls than in the Union. With wider tables, you don't have to shake hands with just anybody who drags his sleeve in you mashed potatoes. People soon learn the proper, vaguely distant expression, the limp handshake, the alert, interested way of seeming to listen to someone at the next table--all the marks of the development of really good manners...
...should use every occasion to expose the fact that the Russians are exploiting this portion of the German population, and exploiting is the proper word," he said...
...relationship. His insistence on the need of dedication to propositions is echoed by the editors of i.e. in their editorial, "The Place of Opposition": "A society of no open conflicts, where gossip is the only expression of feeling, is unhealthy. If an emotion does not exhaust itself on its proper object, it can never exhaust itself and becomes an endless spin of talk. We need more directness, more active awareness...
...individual also figures prominently in the choosing, but not as a personality. The impression made in an interview is not an accurate or a lasting one, and therefore the basis for judging a man must come from his record. The proper combination of scholarship, athletics, and extra-curricular interests constitutes the "ideal" man for whom each House searches. This "ideal" varies, of course, from master to master, and the applicants to each House are thus judged by different standards...
Clifton Webb sheds every trace of his Mr. Belvedere mannerisms to give a terse performance as Montagu, the intelligence officer who has more trouble selling his own high command than he does in hoodwinking the Germans. His toughest job is finding a proper body: that of a man of military age who has just died of pneumonia-so there will be enough fluid in the lungs to fool a Spanish prosector into believing the man has drowned. So long as the film remains a documentary, its detail is fascinating, whether it is the slow building of a personality and past...