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...Unman, Wittering and Zigo has to do with unpleasant goings on in an English boarding school, where the boys of lower 5-B casually inform their new master (David Hemmings) that they have murdered his predecessor. It is a basically unbelievable premise that nevertheless makes for some nice, subdued thrills. That is exactly the sort of thing that Willard sorely lacks. It is a movie with a good idea-a young man who uses rats to avenge the oppressions of his elders-but it would have needed a combination of Bunuel and Hitchcock to carry it off. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Summer Coolers | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

With such and so long ache, ah to unman...

Author: By Patrick Odonnell, | Title: Berryman's Sonnets | 10/14/1967 | See Source »

Patsy takes off, leaving a farewell note after ten pages of a Molly-Bloom-type soliloquy. Sample unthoughts about her unman: "The noise he made when he swallowed; his smelly feet!" Obviously, such a fellow as Tom deserves to be cuckolded. Patsy's choice is a chap named Ron, and together they "could knock spots off the Kinsey report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Girl with Green Ink | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...sense so limited that, as Bagehot declared in the 1860s, the monarch "must sign his own death warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to him." But the prestige of Victoria grew and grew, nor were her prerogatives trifling: she could disband the army, unman the navy, set free all prisoners, make every British citizen a peer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glare & Shadow | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...reasonable rate, and they should avoid "overpainting" the future to the men; and (6) A current major problem is to place the liberal arts graduates out over the next ten years-- more openings should develop for men with a background in the social sciences, economics, governmental affairs, and unman engineering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Englanders Confer to Improve Colleges' Contacts With Industries | 6/9/1937 | See Source »

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