Word: waiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to official estimates, there are 45 million Untouchables in India and slightly less than three million in Pakistan. Their touch, their shadow, even their mere presence is considered polluting by some caste Hindus. In some villages they must wait by the well, pot in hand, till a charitable upper-caste Hindu (standing at a careful distance) pours some water for them. Occasionally an Untouchable will gather enough money to hire an upper-caste villager to draw his water for him regularly. Caste Hindu employers sometimes wrap up the money to be paid Untouchable workers, drop the pay into their...
...Director Laszlo Halasz has little money to work with. On his last night in Manhattan's City Center, he put on Richard Strauss's Salome as a dress rehearsal for his Chicago opening. He wasn't worried. Said Director Halasz: "My kids are like soldiers. They wait for their cue, and then when it is time they sing. They know if they don't sing there will be trouble tomorrow...
Further council decisions specified that freshmen and transfer students must have "twelve months (as well as two terms) in residence" to be eligible. It also recommended that member colleges wait for final results on a NCAA survey before signing 1949 television contracts with video hookups...
Certain problems facing the central committee may go to separate groups on the physical, biological and agricultural, medical, social sciences, and the humanities for separate consideration may wait until sometime this Spring...
Unfaithfully Yours often trips over its own snarled plot lines and falls flat. But Rex Harrison gives a sly, buoyant performance in a tough, wordy role. And some of Writer-Director-Producer Sturges' whimsy and brisk dialogue are worth the wait through the dull spots. In a cast heavy with "characters," Edgar Kennedy, Lionel Stander and Rudy Vallee stand out. Vallee is especially good as a stuffed-shirt multimillionaire...