Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luckily, Director Guy Green (The Angry Silence, The Mark) has a knack for sustaining the sort of idea that in lesser hands might easily slip from pathos into bathos. Green's style is simple, forceful and true, and he habitually activates a performer's most astonishing inner resources. The prize of his present cast is 21-year-old film fledgling Elizabeth Hartman. Spindly and coltish as Selina, with a plain-pretty face that can erupt unexpectedly into electric beauty, she wins genuine sympathy by playing up the spunk in her role, playing against the saccharine. She is achingly...
...been fed as well as possible, had not been required to do overly hard labor, and had been given books to read, Red Cross packages and mail from home. Both insisted that they had not been subjected to any form of brainwashing; but the Viet Cong representative did let slip that "the good discipline of the prisoners" had been a major factor in granting their release...
...novel that something is the Pennsylvania Dutch peasantry on the farm lands and the immigrant Irish and Polish serfs in the coal "patches" upriver. A farm boy, intent on exploring the grounds, dies impaled on the spiked wall, and George bugs out to New York, leaving his lawyer to slip $500 in hush money to the family. Why does a man like this want to be a gentleman? It seems that "becoming a gentleman" was an obsession that Father Abraham had developed and that he thought of as "the Lockwood concern"-concern being the Quaker word for a Friend...
...incumbent, Gartland had been expected slip back into office amidst the general clamor for the status quo. The Wednesday newspapers blamed the loss on his affiliation with a reform group, the Citizens for Boston Schools. The citizens backed four candidates besides Gartland, all of whom lost after managing to get on the final ballot. The introduction of this reform slate crystallized the racial problem as a political issue...
After trudging through a listless first half yesterday, the Harvard freshman soccer squad came alive in the last two periods to slip past rugged Andover...