Word: unwittingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Collaborator. They let it be known that if their deputies won, they would choose as Rome's mayor a solid-jowled and prosperous lawyer named Giovanni Selvaggi. Selvaggi is well-fitted for the role of an unwitting Judas sheep. A pre-Mussolini liberal, he retired from politics during Fascism...
Writing of Yalta with the perspective of the past half-dozen years, Wilmot tries hard to be fair to Roosevelt, but is distressed by F.D.R.'s naive belief that "Uncle Joe" would keep his promises. Shrewdly, he points out that the meeting took place after Hitler had shaken up...
The Light Touch (MGM) opens with a deft lesson in the art of stealing an old master's painting from a crowded Italian museum. A self-contained little thriller, from the planning to the getaway, this sequence is plotted and timed as neatly as the theft itself. It also...
Unlike Sunset Boulevard, its pale counterpart stirs no emotion and avoids any commentary on the manners & morals of Hollywood, past or present. But it courts some unanticipated resentment and unwitting pathos in the exploitation of the faded oldtimers whom it uses as trophy-like props to dress up a few...
The greatest sweepstakes in Law School history ended Wednesday in a third year class in Evidence. Barry Golumb 3L and Joseph S. Dow 3L, the unwitting principals of a three month talking marathon, were neck and neck going into the last two days. Each had answered 38 guestions at the...