Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students signed a petition asking for free election of delegates to a student congress. Because such a student congress would rival the S.E.U., the proposal drew Falange fire; but University Rector Dr. Pedro Laín Entralgo thought it wise to allow the students to blow off steam, agreed to free elections, class by class, in the downtown law school. Last fortnight first-year law students, voting for 20 congress delegates, elected only one man from a full slate of candidates put up by the S.E.U. Two days later the second-year men voted, and the S.E.U. got only...
...begin with, Playwright Chayefsky's forte is not the idyls of the Kingsleys but the annals of doggedly ordinary folk. Given a handful of lower-middle or too-recently-upper-middle class people, and he will envelop them in a fine steam bath of banalities, in strong but clotted family feelings. Given a really sharp situation, such as Jerry's family met in a conclave over his possible marriage, and Chayefsky can orchestrate it-and Joshua Logan conduct it-with precise, phonographic humor. But the strong point of the playwright becomes the weak point of the play...
...tabloids as the "sterilized heiress" after she charged that her mother and two San Francisco doctors had her sterilized without her knowledge to prevent her from bearing an heir to the family fortune (her great-grandfather: Inventor-Industrialist Peter Cooper, builder in 1830 of the first U.S. steam locomotive, the Tom Thumb); reportedly of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Monterrey, Mexico. Ann Cooper's sensational charges collapsed after the two doctors were acquitted and her mother died. Married six times, she never bore a child...
...York's Consolidated Edison earmarked $120 million-its biggest capital outlay in a decade-to increase gas, electricity and steam output this year...
...otherwise excellent supervisor who spoils his performance by a bullying lack of tact with subordinates. Since his behavior is adolescent, the prescription was to treat him as an adolescent, with firmness and support, and allow him to let off steam against his own superior with no fear of counterattack...