Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hunkering as practiced by the University of Arkansas students [Nov. 9] brought memories of childhood days in Yorkshire, England, just before the turn of the century. Hunkering was the usual posture of the miners employed in a nearby colliery when, on a summer evening, they gathered in a ring to talk local politics or discuss the merits of their respective whippets...
...nominations, however, one can expect a full blitz of winning Rockefeller smiles and dark "Nixon can't win" statements. Rockefeller has shown as governor that he can indeed courageously undertake necessary but momentarily unpopular actions. He has shown genuine leadership. Such leadership would be very welcome relief from the usual campaign inanities, and restore much of the lustre Rockefeller has lost behind his flashing smile...
...Conant's usual answer to questions solely on the American system was that it was "hard to generalize." He was emphatic, however, on the disadvantages of a suggestion by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover that the United States instigate highly-selective, European-style schools, to which only the brightest students would be admitted. Admitting that some of these schools already in existence are very successful, he nevertheless felt that it would be cheaper to repair our current system than...
...Four ministers playing the board game "Diplomacy." What mars the film, apart from acting flaws, is chiefly an over-reliance on corn and gag lines, like Miss Seberg's "I always thought you were a snake, you snake." If the script is supposed to be satire on the usual Hollywood cliches, it does not come off as such, but sounds merely trite itself...
...transformed into a postulant-a snappy little Spanish teen-ager with an Irish face (Carroll Baker) and something of a Bronx accent. The Tempter appears as the usual dashing dragoon (Roger Moore). The Reinhardt visions are reduced to a banal catalogue of wide-screen wonders, filmed in what is apparently intended to be glorious Goyacolor...