Word: seene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EDUCATION OF H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N. Poverty is romantic only from a distance; when seen through the eyes of Leo Rosten's ingratiating immigrant in this breezy musical, it is also amusing...
Whether the allied force of some 12,000 men would attempt to root out the North Vietnamese gunners dug into the hills above them remained to be seen. But, in any case, the allies are not likely to elect to stay in A Shau, given the weather and the number of men who would be tied down in de fending it. Instead, Operation Delaware aimed to even an old score for the men of the Special Forces who fell there in 1966-and to destroy all the equipment and tools of war the Communists have so painstakingly assembled...
...layup, Russell roared out of nowhere, making up fully five strides in a single bound, leaped high, and clamped a huge hand over the ball before Clark could drop it into the hoop. "Russell," acknowledged Los Angeles' West afterward, "is the best basketball player I've ever seen. They talk about Wilt Chamberlain, but Russell always rises to the occasion. He is really the most valuable player...
Josef Gross (Paul Stevens), the director of a large organization, has just received a memo written in a language he has never seen before. This is Ptydepe-a tongue that has been introduced into the organization in order to increase the precision and accuracy of office communications. There are some rather baffling rules. Gross discovers, for instance, that a staff member who has received a memorandum in Ptydepe can be granted a translation of a Ptydepe text only after his memorandum has been translated. "In other words," he muses, "the only way to learn what...
...small society of intellectuals, were about to inherit the earth. They never quite made it, but in their later guise as the Bloomsbury Group-Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Virginia Woolf, Clive Bell among others-they did become the most powerful extra-Establishment gang that England has seen in this century...