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...Sandpiper's absurd situations are matched by dialogue that beauty (hers) and talent (his) cannot vanquish. Liz flaunts her attachment to another wastrel whom she knew "in the Biblical sense-he had carnal knowledge of me." Though Burton's performance consists mostly of curtain speeches, he handles his lines with flair, particularly when he drags himself away from Liz's shack into the clean, cool air to intone sonorously: "Oh God, allow me some small remembrance of honor." The drabber phrases fall to Eva Marie Saint as the wife, whose patience and succor are apt to take...
...company won grand acclaim the world over. The Shawns were among the first to create ballets drawn from American themes. Their chain of Denishawn dance schools groomed such prime movers of modern dance as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman. Their proudest accomplishment, individually and together, was to help vanquish the puritanical mistrust with which most Americans had traditionally viewed the dance, to make their art part of the nation's cultural life...
...down into units of forty to forty-five students, each equipped with common rooms and kitchenettes for student dinner parties. Even if a unit of forty-five did not provide an atmosphere close to that of the brick dormitories--the administration is relying on the climination of corridors to vanquish institutional atmosphere--it is certain that the entries will be relatively unimportant in determining House atmosphere. It is the dining facilities which determine where and how one rubs shoulders with the animate world, and Fourth House dwellers will eat en masse...
...stunned Dartmouth fans sat silently for several minutes after the gun had ended Harvard's 17-13 upset victory Saturday. Not for 15 games had the Green rooters seen their idols fail to vanquish their opponents. At the post-game press conference, Indian coach Bob Blackman shook his head and said, "We knew we would lose sometime, but it's hard to believe the way it finally happened...
Elah, wherever it may be in Vermont, and with smooth stones vanquish all the philistine forces of evil which either threaten or jeopardize this Republic." Whereupon the Senate re-elected Carl Hayden as president pro tempore...