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...descriptive narrative, and at several points invites you to react as you would to a guided tour or a slide lecture. It also exaggerates Hemingway's literary use of African lioncubs in the old man's dreams, and confuses his visions of Africa with fishing flashbacks and highly ambiguous scenic shots. They may just as well have been filmed on a Cuban beach as in Africa, and the lions seem so visually irrelevent that including them in several crucial scenes of the movie only adds an unsuitable touch of thematic obscurity. All this, even with Tracy's first-rate performance...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: The Old Man and the Sea | 11/18/1958 | See Source »

...road from 14 Plympton St. leads to many bizarre places, from scenic Massachusetts jails to the President's office in Massachusetts Hall to the swimming pool in the White House. CRIMSON editors have occupied them all at one time or another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crime Wave Strikes Again | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

...father, Leonard W. Labaree, is Farnham Professor of History at Yale, presently engaged in editing the Benjamin Franklin Papers. So Labaree was born at New Haven, and thence began a journey which has led ultimately to the Winthrop House doorstep--but by the scenic route...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Winthrop Colonial | 10/2/1958 | See Source »

...fact that Vag had left Cambridge and driven over the scenic route south through Mattapan and other such unpleasant locales was in itself an event of more than usual moment. It required the beautiful concept of Lester Lanin playing his cotillion-brand music before thousands of uncouth wonks who had never seen the inside of a ballroom, much less L.L. in person. To lure Vag to Brockton, of course, the fact that Jerri Vale and Joni James, along with the "live-five" disk-jockey staff of WBZ, would be sharing the same bandstand with the great man added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remember the Alamo | 10/1/1958 | See Source »

Diefenbaker and Eisenhower, who had met briefly twice before, seemed to hit it off immediately. In Diefenbaker's office, before and after formal appearances, and once in an unscheduled drive through the scenic Gatineau Hills of Quebec, the two leaders swapped quips and serious words, argued viewpoints, came to understandings if not always agreements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Plain Talk Between Friends | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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