Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no question in these resolutions of relaxing the present security regulations. They specifically state that no alien, excluded under the present law, shall be admitted under the amended version. And the great number of these visas apply to non-secret, publicized work...
...commander in chief of the army, once the brilliant strategist of the guerrilla days, now,pretty much a figurehead, but a useful one. One version of his life makes him of the landed gentry; another says he was one of a large family of poor peasants who pooled resources to educate one-Chu Teh. First a gym teacher, then a war lord's lieutenant, he learned to command troops, eventually fought himself to high fortune, a houseful of concubines and opium. About 1922 he suddenly abandoned the high life, went to Berlin to study, met Chou...
...Little Birch Tree, so named for a Russian folk song and dance) consists of 31 girls and four male musicians. Opening night was attended largely by professionals of one sort or another-professional British ballet dancers and professional pro-Russians. What they saw looked pretty much like a Russian version of the dances at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. Carrying birch branches and dressed in a variety of robes and Cossack costumes with boots, the girls whirled, waved and wove through a succession of intricate drills and sinuous dances. They displayed great verve, precision and variety...
...spectacled Father Young, 41, became rector of St. Dun-stan's, the "mother church of the East End," six months ago and lost no time startling as many of his 19,000 parishioners as possible with his Americanophile movie-fanning. When he is not studying the King James version of the Bible, he is likely to be deep in the pages of Variety, the bible of U.S. show business. "We have a good deal in common, the church and the entertainment world, in one sense at least," he says. "We must both proclaim or perish. Sometimes I think...
British Actor Leonard Sachs, who, like Wesley, stands 5 ft. 2 in., bears an astonishing likeness to the many preserved portraits of his hero. But hero worship creeps in, and Evangelist Wesley is too often depicted as an 18th century version of Tough Guy James Cagney-deflating the dandies of Bath, puncturing the pomposities of the Anglican Bishop of Bristol, brushing off a highwayman, slicing through a murderous mob of Cornish fisherfolk. In general, the film lacks the dramatic effectiveness of the Lutherans' successful Martin Luther (TIME, Sept. 14), but it should be a popular and acceptable program piece...