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...white convict is played by Tony Curtis, who rose to fame as the schoolgirl's delight. This was probably because he looks like a slightly effeminate schoolboy at an inferior school. I had never seen him before, and he was a good deal better than I feared he would be, though he was a little hard to take in his reflective moments...
There was something else about Budget Director Stans's report that any schoolboy could plainly see: the biggest unexpected increase in spending came not in defense, or even in fighting the recession: it came in the scandalous, runaway farm subsidy payments that raised the agriculture budget for the current prosperous farm year to an outrageous $6.9 billion...
President Lowell, in his Report to the University, stated: "All alumni are urged to refrain from offering an inducement to any schoolboy to enter Harvard, when the compelling motive is his athletic skill." The remark was taken with a grain of salt by loyal sons. After all, Harvard was the Rose Bowl champion, wasn...
...under his robes of benevolent paterfamilias, is superb as a ruthless and contriving tyrant who has lived for 40-odd years with a woman he despises, and raised two sons only to be able to boast of a namesake. Gooper still sweats with jealousy over his brother's schoolboy athletic triumphs, and Maggie yearns pitiably for Brick's love and for the creature comforts she never knew in her youth. Catalyst for them all is Brick, whose homosexual attraction for a teammate (only hinted at in the picture) and subsequent flood of guilt over his buddy...
...cliches of classroom science films -the white-coated chemist making voodoo, the spectacular, cymbal-scored shot of steel being poured or an oil well gushing, the concluding tide of coronation music as the sponsoring firm is identified -are familiar to every schoolboy who has slumped, bored but gratefully relaxed, through a reel or two of respite from the chore of learning. High school science teachers have tolerated these technological travelogues presumably because they are "visual aids to education," and the phrase sounds up-to-date; college science profs have ignored them almost completely...