Word: prospers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After more than three years in Cinemogul Hughes's vaults, Vendetta has now been released, with an advertising splurge featuring Faith Domergue in a fetching décolletage (which never appears on the screen). The film is a solemn attempt to puff up the overblown passions of Colomba, Prosper Mérimée's novel of 19th Century Corsican intrigue. It will make many a moviegoer wonder what all the shooting and reshooting were about...
...Christopher Fry turned his first corner almost 43 years ago in Bristol. For 38 of his 42 years, he lived close to poverty. Fry's father was a poor architect named Charles Harris, who had a hankering to be a clergyman. Just as he finally began to prosper in his trade he decided to chuck it and take to lay missionary work in the Bristol slums. He took to drink besides. When he died, his widow had to take in boarders, but managed to send Christopher to a decent school. Later he assumed his mother's name...
...social life the only, or even the main facet of undergraduate life in Ithaca. Over 235 student organizations prosper on the campus. Among the most vocal among these are the political clubs which represent about the same proportion of Republicans to Democrats to far leftists as is extant here...
Concluding, he stated,"... as a citizen you have a collective responsibility as to spiritual matters... Without a set of values no society can prosper long...
...Song makes very thin broth. For awhile it can just manage to be termed uneven; by the end, there is no kinder word than weak. The show boasts a batch of sprightly and likable young people, including Dancer Joan McCracken. But youth at the prow can seldom prosper without ability in the engine room. The show has some pleasantly simple dance numbers, but more that are noisy and elaborate. One or two songs are nice enough to listen to, but there are none worth talking about. The sketches, always the most important part of a revue, are by & large...