Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cannes, skindivers soar around beds of jeweled coral-reds, violets, purples, yellows-in pursuit of sea bass and mullet. In Australia they prowl the caverns of the1,250-mile Great Barrier Reef, or play tag with the gregarious seals that frolic off Carnac Island. Near London, divers happily muddle through the ooze of a dank lake in Black Park...
...seminar program’s virtual lack of format, the result of a vague Faculty ruling and of administration by the Advanced Standing Committee, has permitted individual leaders almost complete freedom. The result has been pursuit of special interests, appropriately scaled down to Freshman proportions but scarcely adjusted to the real potentials and limitations of a Freshman program...
Greenwillow, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, is based on B. J. Chute's novel about a family that suffers from wanderlust. Four seasons ago, Loesser converted Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted into The Most Happy Fella. The present show, starring Tony Perkins in pursuit of Zeme North was described by the Philadelphia Bulletin's Ernie Schier as "a collection of bits and pieces" and "unwieldy." (March...
Roman Candle (by Sidney Sheldon), which closed at week's end, was a farce about an Army scientist pursued by a girl with extrasensory perception. The pursuit took place in back-to-back Washington apartments, with time out for launching missiles in Alaska and for unloosing endless gags about the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, horse racing, Eisenhower golf, lovemaking, martini-making and money...
...return. It is her daughter, one of Soldner's students, whose nightmarish experiences give the book an aura of suspense that is more effective than its theme of corruption-by-money. The bearer of horror is a mentally unbalanced youth determined to have the young girl. His pursuit gives the novel a sense of imminent disaster and a switch ending more appropriate to a mystery than a thesis novel...