Word: steals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Never Steal Anything Small (Universal-International) was first conceived by Playwright Maxwell Anderson and Director Rouben Mamoulian, back in 1953, as a Broadway musical drama-a sort of Guys and Dolls with a social message. The message: If Robin were alive today, he would be a labor leader, and even if he gave to the poor what he stole from the rich, he would still be damned for a Hood. What with the conservative temper of the times, and a series of union scandals, the authors could never quite raise the money fof a Broadway production-a difficulty that...
...Renata Tebaldi. But not even the pleasure of catching Cagney at close to his best can entirely appease the sense that this is really an amoral little movie. Not even the greediest hands in labor's till have ever publicly demanded what this picture demands: the right to steal...
...college on the make, the royal road to reputation is the research production line. If a university can beg, borrow, or steal a dozen scholars who then illuminate the academic horizon, it may rise from anonymity in a single decade. In part this is due to the comparative ease of evaluating scholarship as opposed to evaluating graduates, and in part it is due to the fact that academic reputations are national, whereas personal reputations of graduates are usually local...
Although he is no longer in college, Ron Delany of Ireland could still steal the show tonight in the special Louis S. Zamperini Mile. Last week, he caught Hungarian Istvan Rozsavolgyi with one of his stirring last-lap charges and finished first...
...fielded it with surprising deftness, and tore out all the pages slowly one by one. "I am eclectic. I steal from everybody," he said. "Anyway, it made the almost incredibly splendid scene. Neatoroonie...