Word: spelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his stamp collecting and reading ("everything from match covers to encyclopedias," says his mother), he kept at his workouts. He pored over lists prepared by his teachers. At night, as he ate his bedtime snack, his mother would fire words at him while he struggled sleepily to spell them. The long preparation eventually paid off: last week Bill landed in Washington, D.C. for the finals...
...scholarship in his pocket and a weekend scheduled in Manhattan, Champion Cashore admitted that he had "guessed a little" during the ordeal. But that did not prevent him from offering a word of advice to contestants of the future. "Study hard after school," said Bill. "And think before you spell...
...time alive, Ravenstreet realizes that he should have married an adoring mistress rather than the boss's daughter, and that Mervil and associates are evil men. anxious to clamp a power-mad elite on drug-happy masses (the theories of the '30s reappear here for a spell). Outfitted with a new set of values, Ravenstreet breaks with Lord Mervil and wins the forgiveness of his erstwhile mistress on her deathbed. Ravenstreet is eager to thank the three "magicians" for everything, but they have vanished into the thin upper air of Author Priestley's somewhat pixilated imagination...
...Next morning, the critics were unanimous. "Up goes the Iron Curtain on enchanting dancers," said the News Chronicle. Wrote the Times: "An example of Russian theatrical art [which], when it comes West, always surprises us anew, delights us with its Tightness as well as its distinction, and puts a spell...
Olivia herself soon succumbs to the spell of Mlle. Julie. The woman spreads her web for the girl, but even as Olivia is drawn closer, the audience begins to understand how Julie is caught in her own net no less cruelly than her victims are. She is a woman of spirit and of heart, a gifted teacher who desperately fights her own inclinations. The picture is never crass and only once or twice comes close to being explicit...