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...glanced at me, saying nothing, then faced the blank rear wall of the car and remained in that position until I got off at my 8th-floor office...
...would the female silhouette look in dress grays? "They thought the tailed jackets would accent our figures," says one of the women incredulously. "They thought our big rear ends would stick out, so they gave us no tails." Visitors who looked for the women on the parade fields had no trouble spotting them. They were the ones without tails...
...suspense darkened. The tongue-in-cheekiness of the lovely little English films (notably The 39 Steps in 1935 and The Lady Vanishes in 1938) gradually became more subdued, replaced first by the broody romanticism of movies such as Rebecca (1940) and Notorious (1946), then by the assured slickness of Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955) and North by Northwest (1959). It was in the middle of that last group that, in two superb, underrated films, The Wrong Man (1957) and Vertigo (1958), he directly, quite humorlessly, confronted his belief that injustice will be done and that nothing...
Even before the bodies of the first nine victims were removed, the remaining four had been bound to the posts. They went down in a fusillade of fire that lasted five minutes. Many of the soldiers in the rear formation joined in. As the shooting stopped, a great shout rose from the watching mob: "Freedom! At last we have our freedom!" Some of the soldiers rushed forward to kick and pummel the corpses...
...MOST RECENT REPORT Bok presented the philosophical rationale for such allocation of Harvard's resources. In ordering the priorities of the University, first place goes to research. Second goes to the professional schools. Liberal arts training brings up the rear, and Bok presents it as the handmaiden of the professions, serving society insofar as it enables specialized technicians to obtain sufficient breadth of knowledge to do their job well...