Word: soils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cause of the landslide was the peaceful Nicolet River. About 15 years ago, the river changed its course and left only a dry bed near the school and the cathedral. Apparently an underground stream continued to flow beneath the old river bed. eroding the soil and rock to form a natural tunnel that finally collapsed. One consolation was that the crash came on a Saturday; on a schoolday the death toll might have run into hundreds...
...Fernandel is very French and very funny. Besides, this movie has a distinctly French twist--its emphasis on procreation. It is, as the village mayor says of an especially prolific crop of Saint Forget grandchildren, "a tribute to the Saint Forget vigor and the bounty of our native soil...
Brando is the revolutionary tiger, an uneducated animal of the soil, yet his dedication to the peasants' cause is beautifully expressed. In bold contrast to Brando's passionate sincerity, Kazan develops the black-draped figure of Fernando as the cratic zealot of any war--the traitor who with no devotion to either side, with no goal other than rebellion and death. Joseph Wiseman fulfills this role with a calm fanaticism, breaking his shell of assurance with sudden bursts of excitement. Zapata's brother is equally reckless, but Anthony Quinn plays the part in an amusing swagger, lifting skirts as easily...
...what happens after U.S. aid falls off? Beneath Italian soil lies the promise of rich oil deposits, perhaps enough to fulfill Italy's own needs and to save her expensive imports. Oil is not the answer to all of Italy's economic problems, but it is a good place to make a start. The question before Premier Antonio Segni's Cabinet last week was whether to entrust the big job of finding and exploiting the oil to the U.S. companies who have the capital and the experience to do the job, or to leave...
...Bourgeois Sentilhomme (by Molière) was the opening bill of a momentous Broadway engagement; for the first time in its illustrious 275-year history, the Comédie Françise was performing (in French) on U.S. soil. It was fitting that the Comédie should raise its first Broad way curtain on something by France's most famous playwright; it was, on the whole, wise that it chose from Molière something so relatively familiar and so lightly entertaining as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Far from the great Molière of Le Misanthrope, Le Bourgeois...