Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Rosemary Harris and Ellis Rabb lead the suavely professional APA Repertory Company through Richard Sheridan's high-humored dissection of a gossipy group in 18th century London whose slashing tongues cut a wider path than their wits...
...this 1960 drama into one of the most intelligent religious movies ever made. Paul Scofield is even more mesmeric as Sir Thomas More than he was in the play, pulling all eyes toward the brilliant Christian who chooses to save his soul and lose his head in the greatest scandal of the 16th century...
...many criminals have been taking a powder from British jails these days (399 this year) that two months ago, when Soviet Spy George Blake sawed his way out of Wormwood Scrubbs in London, the issue of prison security welled up into a national scandal that acutely embarrassed the Labor government. Home Secretary Roy Jenkins reacted by naming the eminent Earl Mountbatten to head a committee of inquiry. In turn, the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty pledged his word that "We will be out working all the time, not sitting on our backsides...
...liner Sasaki v. 274 for Eda and his vision. It was a guarantee that if Premier Sato does call a general election next month, the major opposition will not only still be out of touch with modern Japan, but will also be even more badly divided than his own scandal-tainted Liberal Democrats...
...first great social philosopher of the modern era. As a jurist, he was the brightest legal light of the realm. As a politician, he rose to the highest office in the King's gift: Lord Chancellor. As a Christian, he stood fast to his principles in the greatest scandal of the century, choosing to save his soul though he lost his head, and for his martyrdom he is recorded in the calendar of saints...