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Look Back in Anger will go down in history for leading British drama out of the drawing room and into the rooming house, for giving it a good shot of O'Neill-Miller-Williams influence, and for varying its genteel decorum with a rude, poignant intensity and a new relevance to both current and recurrent human concerns. But the analogous revolution for British movies has already been accomplished by Room at the Top, and the film version of John Osborne's play appears as a good piece of work in an established genre of sex-and-the-class-struggle movies...
...under the NDEA and to administer the required oath to students requesting loans, in order to applaud and encourage "the high motives which prompted Congress to pass the ... Act." But President Pusey, in a letter supporting Senator Kennedy's bill to abolish the oath requirement, also called the oath "rude and unworthy of Congress," "a direct personal affront" to the colleges, and urged that Kennedy's committee recommend the "elimination of this odious section...
...months after returning from Italy, Moore was miserable. "That exposure stirred up a violent conflict with my previous ideals. I found myself helpless and unable to work." On one side was the primitive's rude power, on the other the Renaissance's calculated sophistication. He scuffed along with a two-day-a-week job teaching sculpture at the Royal College. Only when he returned to studying the primitives at the British Museum could he gradually begin to work again...
...together. But Khrushchev's more crucial decision to give Nixon a chance to shine in Russia was a conscious effort to persuade the U.S. to bypass NATO, the Big Four and the U.N., in favor of direct dealings with Moscow. Khrushchev had been almost indifferent-as well as rude-to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Now, in return for his welcome to Nixon, Nikita unabashedly hoped to get an invitation to the U.S. And judging from the sounds emerging from Washington-and from Nixon himself in Moscow (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he was likely in due course...
...successful emigrant had freighted his American car (a mid-50s model) back to Lebanon to impress his home villagers. He had a rude awakening. "They've all got 1959 models!" he complained. Premier Rashid Karami, Maronite Patriarch Paul Meouchi (once of Los Angeles), and even usually aloof President Fuad Chehab posed smilingly for pictures with the visitors. Most of the expatriates seemed glad to see the old country, but would they like to stay? "Of course I'm going back," snapped one conventioner. "I just came here to dream...