Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Remembrance of Things Past to "a 20-year-old store catalogue." Though a staunch socialist and avid student of political economy, he considered Karl Marx "the worst type of bore," and he summed up the Soviet image of the revolutionary worker as a "pithacoid Proletarian, dishevelled and semi-nude...
...Council obviously has acted on the strength of its experience with the semi-serious abolitionist movement of last spring, the only "joker" referendum that has shown up in recent years. But one disagreeable occurrence is not enough to warrant revision of the constitution, which is designed to provide general control of the Council's activity. Some students may abuse their right to control the Council, but this is no excuse for eliminating the right entirely...
...setting defenses for the dangerous Holy Cross passing attack and polishing its own offense. With the Jayvees simulating Crusader pass patterns, the first string defensive backfield of line-backers Buddy Lomay and Phil Isenberg, halfbacks Dusty Burke and Dave Warden, and safetyman Red Wylie, went through a 45-minute semi-live session...
Lilli Palmer plays Gillian Holroyd, an attractive young witch who takes a liking to a publisher (Rex Harrison) living upstairs. Although witches can't love, she casts a semi-permanent spell on him. Miss Holroyd (whose name means "Holy Rood" in archaic English), is just beginning to enjoy life when her witch aunt and her warlock brother arrive to tangle things up. A pathetic little author of witchcraft books is drawn to the apartment and his descriptions of "them" afford some enjoyable snickers...
Died. Al Jolson, 64, black-faced, mammy-shouting musicomedy star (Sinbad, Bombo, Big Boy), whose brassy voice in The Jazz Singer for Warner Brothers in 1927 gave talking pictures their first real start; of coronary occlusion; in San Francisco. After a successful movie and radio career and then semi-retirement in the thirties, Jolson (real name Asa Yoelson) started a second career during World War II, when he entertained troops in Europe, Africa, India and the South Pacific. In 1946 his dubbed-in singing of his old favorites (My Mammy, Sonny Boy, Swanee, April Showers) in The Jolson Story...