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...instance, Alfred E. Stearns, Fuess's predecessor at Andover, was anything but a "dryasdust pedant... At times he displayed a fiery temper, and on at least two occasions peremptorily 'fired' an instructor in anger, only to repent and apologize before sunset. Sometimes he made enemies by the stout fashion in which he spoke out, but the boys liked his ... strong convictions ... He continually stressed . . . moral issues; and like Thomas Arnold he was more interested in forming character than in producing scholars...
Playhouse on Broadway (Sun. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Marlene Dietrich in Sunset Boulevard...
...first appearance since 1950's Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson seems to be giving a devastating imitation of herself in that picture, including lacquered profile, smoked glasses, fluttering eyelashes and grande dame mannerisms...
...commemorate the month when they believe the Prophet Mohammed received God's most sacred book, the Koran, Moslems fasted, prayed and meditated. Their uncompromising fast made similar Christian regulations seem lax by comparison. It required a rigid total abstinence from food and drink each day, between dawn and sunset, mostly in climates where the tropical sun is especially unkind to such self-denial...
...final two stories represent the most obvious and most used type of humor distortion of events or other literature. Norman Pettit's Island Sunset is. I think a satire on Hemingway's style. Petit uses the same short action packed sentences to build and atmosphere which would not be out of place in a Hemingway work. It is however very easy to imitate Hemingway's style without touching his character and plot development and that is all Pettit has done...