Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Utility Man Budd, Sheil set out to lure off the streets young potential gangsters-white and Negro, Protestant, Catholic and Jew-with a social and athletic program that kept moralizing to a minimum. Boxing was the major attraction. When some high-minded people clucked at the stress on boxing, Bishop Sheil's reply was: "Show me how you can inspire boys away from the brothels and saloons with a checker tournament and I'll put on the biggest checker tournament you ever...
Paris Express (Raymond Stress; George Schaefer), a British movie version of French Novelist Georges Simenon's The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, is a Technicolored slice of European low life. It tells of a dull, respectable Dutch bookkeeper (Claude Rains) who catches his boss (Herbert Lom) running out with embezzled company money. In the scuffle, the employer is accidentally killed, and the bookkeeper, tempted by the financial windfall, runs off to Paris with the funds. There he takes up with a shady lady (Marta Toren) and has his one big fling before the police close...
...process of being transferred to the screen, the Simenon novel has lost not only its original title but also much of its point. The book, in examining human frailty under stress, was an incisive study of abnormal psychology. Claude Rains's stiff performance and some thoroughly normal moviemaking turn the picture into a routine chase yarn...
Social Relations 1 will be a half course in the spring of 1954. It will stress selected problems concerning the relationship between the individual and society. The course was a full course this year...
Expert opinion in the West, hesitant at first to make any judgments at all on the goings-on in the Kremlin, last week was hardening into a conclusion: that the new Soviet peace offensive primarily reflects and responds to internal stress. The men in the Kremlin do not want anyone rocking the boat-either from inside or out-until the scuffle in the wheelhouse is over...