Word: toiling
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...ingredients, a blonde, blue-eyed Olinka Berova, 21. La Berova, a former dancer who has made eleven films at home, was snapped up by British Director Cliff Owen for a lead in a movie called The Vengeance of She, will be the first actress from Eastern Europe to toil in a capitalist movie. She seems to know the fundamentals. After expressing her affection for London by embracing the miniskirt, she flew to the film location in Monaco, embraced even less on a decadent, bourgeois beach...
...while a mounting crisis in Vietland underscores the play's domestic spectacle. And the New Left (personified in the three witches, a New Negro, and old Wobbly and an audacious little coed) is damned along with the rest of the pack interested only in social disorder ("Bubble and bubble, toil and trouble, / Burn Baby Burn and caldron bubble...
...Frick art museum. Thus in 1964, Miss Frick was incensed when she unwrapped a Christmas present: Historian Sylvester K. Stevens' Pennsylvania: Birthplace of a Nation (Random House), which limned her "stern, brusque, autocratic" father as the hard-knuckled "Coke King" who forced Pennsylvania coal miners to toil for $1.60 a day and crushed "the disastrous Homestead strike...
...leaders presented impressive testimonials to the thriving success of Mormonism. Since 1940, membership in the church has more than tripled, to 2,600,000. Last year alone, the church gained 117,000 new members. Two-thirds of the new comers were converts netted by the 12,000Mormon missionaries who toil from New England to New Zealand...
What this adds up to, I think, is that the Volunteer can really be neither amateur nor professional. He has lost that flush of innocence, or amateurism, which makes one think that by dint of honest toil and a boundless faith in human perfectability one can change any individual; on the other hand, he is working at too low a level to have acquired the technician's confidence in his mastery of tools for shaping institutions...