Word: protegees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The plot in brief: The brilliant middle-aged Dr. Hallet, accompanied by the young, but also very brilliant, protege, are in Indonesia, or the like, finding a cure for the fatal tropical disease. When Hallet thinks he has found it, he prepares to infect himself with the desease, to try...
Well, that was only 20 minutes into the movie, so as you might have expected, the "cure" fails. Before his death, however, the young doctor records what he has determined to be the real cure. Dr. Hallet then assumes his young assistant's identity and forges his travelers checks, the...
-Esquire Editor Harold T.P. Hayes, after spending 17 successful years with the magazine, suddenly quit last week only months before he was to succeed Publisher Arnold Gingrich. The reason: Hayes refused to surrender editorial responsibility in taking over the publisher's role. Gingrich pronounced himself "bitterly disappointed" by the...
"If Polyansky accomplishes anything," says a top U.S. State Department expert, "it will have taken a miracle." English Kremlinologist Robert Conquest thinks that Polyansky, a former protege of Khrushchev's, has been maneuvered into a position of "succeed or else." Says Conquest: "Since he can't succeed, he...
And what becomes of the "feminine" aspect of human personality in Don Juan's world? In the first book, Don Juan reverses our cultural stereotypes in describing an ally as female-like: violent, cruel, unpredictable. On the other hand, mescalito, the spirit of peyote, is described as male-like: kind...