Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snooks Kelly's Eagles, the game was a sad awakening. The inexperienced B.C. team had only its indomitable hustle to stop the Crimson from embarrasing it beyond recognition. And the Eagles, with a schedule almost as difficult as the varsity's, seems doomed to a losing season for the second time in 20 years...
...Fruit Juice Bar nodded in their sad, solemn way; nodded over their cocoanut martinis and cottage cheese; nodded, and gazed into the mantlepiece mirror and watched an age spin the garment of its own mortality...
Such a proposal, if accepted, would be a serious setback to the tutorial system and a sad commentary on the quality of Harvard teaching. Whatever success tutorial enjoys at present is due to the quality and relevance of the material studied and the knowledge and teaching skill of the tutor. Instituting graded tutorial would be an admission that the present supply of these assets is inadequate to produce the interest needed for a good tutorial session. Grades would indeed create a certain type of interest. But better instruction and teaching would create another, more desirable sort of interest. If departments...
Some of the woeful inadequacies of life when compared to fiction are made very funny, but the film is not the neat satirical gem that it could be, and for a sad reason. The two sequences of events, both acted out for use with mild ingenuity by the same cast in the same setting, are too similar. Although an amusing technical touch is added by filming the reality in black and white and the fiction in technicolor, the scriptwriters' reality is often too close to the novelist's fiction, and both are often obvious...
...graduated from high school in Charleston. W. Va. (pop. 75,000), Jennie, who looks like the second-prettiest girl at a high-school prom, has taken on a new name (old one: Jo Ann Kristof), learned to gush cute quotes ("I'm crazy about mustard sandwiches ... I sing sad songs saddest when I'm happy") and do a very fair imitation of throaty, top-ranking Jazz Singer June Christy. To the tub-thumping rhythm of an intense promotional campaign by RCA Victor, Jennie just finished a month of bouncing about the country buttering up disk jockeys and celebrating...