Word: se
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like 250,000 other Venezuelans, Señorita Mercedes Urbina and her cousin, Sefiorita Elena Josefina Gonzalez Urbina, enjoy taking a modest flyer on the Five-and-Six, he country's fabulous Sunday horse-race lottery, based on a five-or six-horse combination. But since they are sheltered girls who find form charts hard to puzzle out they relied mainly on Mercedes' brother Nelson for expert handicapping in last week's races at Caracas' Hipódromo track. With proper humility they accepted his picks for the first four races; then girlish independence took over...
...Russians have abandoned complete freedom in favor of a "unifying philosophy" which all must accept. This proves, by implication, that freedom is a good thing, since Russian education is a bad thing. But Dr. Conant never discusses the possibility that the fault is not in the unifying philosophy per se, but rather in the universal acceptance of a philosophy incapable of encompassing experience, dialectical materialism. The premise is apparently that no philosophy can unify, a premise certainly needing defense...
...agrees to let Van stick around in disguise until the river subsides. But now the emotional tides begin rising. Cotten's wife (Ruth Roman), who has been moping because she can't have a baby, and therefore-by Hollywood logic-is losing her husband to the light señoritas across the border, begins to get curious about Van. So do the fast-living neighbors. All this prying, and Cotten's refusal to send money to Van's family, make Van unreasonable. He knocks out his brother, insults his neighbors, and goes on a prolonged bender...
Doughlas, who led the losing fight against Senate passage of the measure last Monday, told a reporter today that in his opinion, a $2,500 political campaign contribution offered to Se. Francis Case (R-S.D.) represented only a "surface indication of what went...
...brooding Roman Catholic novelist, François Mauriac (Woman of the Pharisees, Therèse) has cared for his soul-and for the souls of his fellow literati-as assiduously as Voltaire advised Frenchmen to tend their gardens. The trouble with Mauriac's theologico-literary gardening is that he cultivates the weeds of sin rather more successfully than the buds of virtue. In his tormented view of the world, good wins none but moral victories...