Word: properous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This production is not by the Brattle Players. The Brattle Theatre proper announced its closing this fall because of lack of funds. It was expected that the Players, an independent organization would disband permanently, but a new drive to reopen the theatre is now being considered...
Carl Sapers '53, chairman of the Combined Charities, commented that Hunt' decision to send out letters "is the proper way for a charity not on the card this year to urge students to contribute to its organization...
Today U.S. education is still trudging along on its sentimental journey. It has not only become stereotyped through its neglect of disciplines ("One might say we have improved on Pope: 'The proper study of mankind is mannikins' "), it has also substituted means for ends and perverted the study of man into the study of "the Behavior of Man as a Social Animal." The key word in school and society is now "welfare," and the general belief is that students "are to be taught the functions of modern society and how to function in it." Says Gordon Chalmers...
...first film in five years, is a sad disappointment. Intended as a tragicomedy, if not a tearjerker, it is a two-thirds bore that comes to life in the last half-hour or so, when the old-master clown stops trying to be pathetic and reverts to his inimitable proper stuff. The 63-year-old comedian, who wrote the script (and the music) and directed the movie, plays an aging, down-at-heel music-hall performer who saves a beautiful young ballet dancer (Claire Bloom) from suicide in World War I London. As she rises to success with his help...
...black as the patch which hung on the other side of the lean, skew nose." His smile is a grim baring of carnivorous teeth; he grasps his cocktail glass in "a black claw" consisting of "two surviving fingers and half a thumb." He is fond of discoursing on the proper use of infantry. "You must use them when they're on their toes . . . Use them . . . spend them. It's like slowly collecting a pile of chips and then plonking them all down . . . It's the most fascinating thing in life...