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...Butters smashed a long triple to centerfield with two outs in the second inning. Tim Wise walked, and when he seemed to be caught in an attempted double steal, feinted back and forth allowing Butters to score before he was run down...
...house is a man's delight. The President can steal away from a party without walking up the dramatic carved stairway, for there is a secret staircase going up through a wall and leading to the second floor...
...last week the Italian press cried for school reform Said the Demo-Christian Il Popolo: "The youth of today finds his moral support in a society of comic books movies and shows . . . where men & women shoot and poison, steal and assault; the representation of a jungle world." We are all convinced," said Milan's Corriere delta Sera, "that the Italian school program is loaded in a frightening manner. We must impose a remedy." Shrilled the Communist L'Unità: "The responsibility lies with the system in which we live, which transforms the school into a camp of ruthless...
...part of the action, it resembled the chorus of a Greek tragedy. Berlioz was no genius at writing choral music. His counterpoint is at times turgid, his sonorities monotonous. Nevertheless, there are passages in the final scene where the words and music combine in mutual enhancement, and even steal the show from the orchestra. The Harvard and Radcliffe choral groups, trained by G. Walace Woodworth, were no better than usual, but they really couldn't be. That they were able to successfully project the rather unrewarding vocal sections is a tribute to their talent and hard work...
...having seen her parents machine-gunned to death by a German plane as they fled across France in 1940, becomes obsessed with ideas of death and burial. She and a boy from the family with whom she takes refuge build a cemetery for animals in an old mill, and steal crosses from local graves to mark the resting places of dead animals. Eventually they are found out, and their little game comes...