Word: sort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lowell appointed the other four to a committee which was to study fellowship systems in certain European universities and make suggestions as to how a program of this sort might be managed at Harvard. The "prize fellowships" at All Souls College, Oxford, at Fondation Thiers, in Paris, and, most especially, those at Trinity College, Cambridge, were thoroughly investigated by the Committee...
...very general sort of way, the battle-lines in most discussions are drawn between humanists and scientists. Some of those who have seen the Society in action for a number of years feel that today's discussion is not quite as sharp and provocative as that of the previous generation. The present chairman of the Society, C. Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, recently agreed that this might to be so, and noted that...
...what seems to be the central scene of the film, exposes a sweet and innocent girl whom he loves and who loves him, lying prostrate and expectant, to another man. After this follows a long stream of almost ridiculous anti-climatical incidents of violence and betrayal in a Kafkaesque sort of prison. And in the end, he finds happiness in a thirty second embrace with the girl, and is led away to be shot...
...theatrically seperate and scattered scenes which in no way hold together. He uses good and tried techniques, such as the flashback and the symbol, but he incredibly misuses them. Daniel Gelin struggles with some artistry to maintain the sympathy and interest of the audience in his Jekyll and Hyde sort of role, and at times he is almost successful. Marie Monsart is fittingly tender and beautiful as his one true love...
...Geoffrey Vicars, skirmishes baggy-trousered local rebels, goes panther shooting, or was it cheetahs, with the treacherous Surat Khan, and loses the love of Olivia DeHaviland, whose lower lip quivers almost continuously in the role of some English general's tender-sweet daughter. The charge, rung in as a sort of last resort in the last ten minutes of the film, climaxes an hour and a half of historical rance, during which the heroine says, "Perry (Geoff's younger brother), I've tried so hard not to; oh, but I do love you." The various generals, officers, and English ambassadors...