Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comedy, or in the last case, tragedy, degenerate into the longueurs of debate; farce becomes crude. Devastating in his ability to talk on both sides of the question and to cap or sink his own arguments, Shaw damps us because he talks his way back to the status quo, and leaves the impression that all he has had to say has only verbal importance. We are back where we started...
...will be denounced for its indifference; if it establishes garrisons it will be attacked as expansionist; if it keeps its troops at home it assures success of aggression in Asia; if it expresses no political preferences it will be accused of siding with reaction and the status quo; if it supports progressive forces it will be condemned for intervention...
...cannot concur with the University that the rehearsal series is an adequate substitute for the Sanders concerts. As an addition to the pre-existing status quo it would be find and musically extremely interesting. As a substitution it is altogether inadequate. It is more expensive per concert, comprises one fewer concert than otherwise, is infinitely more inconvenient to reach for the average Harvard student and serves less than four percent of the total student body. This in addition to many reasons of a technical musical nature...
...Rome, Boxer-turned-Cinemactor Buddy (Jacob Jr.) Baer, hulking (6 ft. 6½ in.) brother of ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer, came out second best in a tussle with the King of Beasts. Passing by a lion's cage on the set of MGM's Quo Vadis, Buddy scarcely had time to duck when a big paw shot through the bars, ripped his shirt from shoulder to waist, clawed an inch-deep gash in his left...
...expected commotion in Rome. The staggering preparations and frantic bustle out at MGM's "Hollywood on the Tiber" were only mildly amazing to modern Romans. In the wineshops, the talk was of the women telephone operators out at Cinedtta who these days answer with a cheery: "Good morning. Quo Vadis...