Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed lonely, and if his 250 admirers felt rather empty as they shuffled down the Harvard Hall stair, they could take succor in the knowledge they are admirable sacrifices to technology. That only American History-and-Literature seniors and graduate students could learn of Norris and Faulkner, Fitzgerald and West was unimportant--for perhaps they, someday, might venture forth on Assistant Professor Lynn's lonely course, there to edify later generations. It is a good thing the English Department doesn't pay much attention to Henry Adams any more...
...Englishman here (Kenneth More) is a gentleman's gunsmith who heads west with a reasonable expectation of doing business-where there's gun smoke, they must use firearms. Beyond that, the only thing the man knows about the U.S. frontier is that Jesse James is "a frightful female." He is therefore rather astonished when several improperly dressed individuals with bright paint daubed on their faces begin to circle the stagecoach on horseback, uttering unmannerly cries in a foreign language. Outraged, he orders the carriage to halt, stomps out to give the Indian chief-whom quite by accident...
...Territory. At that instant, of course, he wins the heart of the cutie that's known as Kate (Jayne Mansfield), but to his horror he also acquires a sheriff's star. And so the rest of the picture resolves into a daydream of how easily the West would have been won if the English, instead of mere colonials...
...WEST GERMANY'S OPEL, a General Motors subsidiary, spurted to No. 2 spot within the company, counting cars and trucks. Last year Opel boosted production by more than 25%, to 315,945 units, well ahead of Oldsmobile, Buick, Pontiac and Cadillac, though far behind Chevrolet's 1,534,575. During year, Opel exported 19,500 cars...
...West Side Story. Romeo and Juliet (more or less) in New York's slums. Music by Leonard Bernstein, brilliant choreography by Jerome Robbins...