Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...younger sister, and only child, a blossoming girl of about fifteen. The sister, Pia, played by Magali Noel, is bored by farm life and wants excitement. Immediately upon Angelo's arrival she sets her sights on him and goes efficiently about the task of seducing him. Being an obliging sort, Angelo is quick to relieve Pia's boredom, and only five minutes after his arrival he is embracing her. She resists, playfully...
...scene is over-written, as is the entire picture. There are too many scenes of boudoir and barnyard love. The character of Angelo is quite unbelievable. He is presented as the kind, gentle, fun-loving peasant, a sort of Italian Burt Lancaster...
Some retentionists claim that the death penalty builds up some sort of "moral abhorrence" in the community for the crime of homicide, the supreme punishment stigmatizing it as the greatest offense. But execution is hardly a moral argument; ethical standards are the products of education and environment, not force...
...Business School soccer field awaits today's M.I.T. game in deathbed shape. Baked bone-dry and brick-hard by the summer sun, and finally drenched by last weekend's rains, the playing field has congealed during the cool nights into a sort of black meringue jello, which makes footing treacherous and accurate ball control a happy accident...
...decade following the war-a country that managed to survive Nazi savagery and Allied destruction, being reborn not in hope but in selfish mediocrity; a society where guilty memories are screened behind lifeless living and where the intellectual tone is set by chattering pedants of the adaptable sort who are able to flourish equally under Naziism or democracy. The fact that today Germany in many ways presents a far more hopeful face to the world does not change the poignancy of Novelist Boll's haunting recollections...