Word: quests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge patrolman John Grainger accused Frederick G. Fassett, Jr., associate dean of students, of dropping water bombs on a police car. Another patrolman said he thought Fassett "incited" 200 students to raid Radcliffe in quest of "dainty souvenirs...
...giving each bureau authority to declare any of its information secret. As the publishers knew, the order had encouraged bureaucrats to 1) keep more & more information from the press, 2) put statements "off the record" which did not belong there, and 3) try to intimidate reporters in quest of the news...
Strange World (O. A. Bayer; United Artists) sets some unreal movie doings against the real background of the Amazon. A young explorer, in quest of the golden Inca idol his father died seeking, not only discovers the statue but also a girl member of the original ill-fated expedition, who has now grown up to become a sort of Jane Russell of the jungle. Boy & girl lose the idol but, predictably, find that they idolize each other. Fumblingly filmed in Brazil, Peru and Bolivia and awkwardly dubbed in English, Strange World features man-eating crocodiles, carnivorous piranha fish, headhunters armed...
...nothing really mattered very much, everything mattered. Since life was too utterly futile, everybody ought to live it to the hilt. "It is absurd for us to be born," proclaimed existentialism's protector, Jean-Paul Sartre. "It is absurd for us to die." For Parisian intellectuals, desperately in quest of an interesting pose, this was the ticket...
...John Dighton and Co-Author-Director Alexander (Tight Little Island) Mackendrick: the series of explosions as the oblivious chemist experiments with his weird test-tube apparatus; the harassed high financiers embroiled in low comedy; the inventor walking off, Chaplin-like, at the fadeout, presumably to continue his single-minded quest for the magic fabric...