Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-Peronistas. After an emotional 8,000-mile tour of the country, she settled into her present routine. From 9 to 1 she receives delegations from near and far, gives pesos to the needy, tells them all: "I am the little mother [madrecita] of all Peronistas. I only wish their union...
Lord Love A Duck is a murky black satire about a teen-age dropout whose every wish comes true. Except for Tuesday Weld's Saturday-night zest, the audience's wishes are unfulfilled. Roddy McDowall, as a teen genie, enables Tuesday to vamp her high school principal, cavort seductively with her father, bury her mother, marry too soon, dispose of her young husband and become a beachnik movie star. All the nonsense strives to spoof the ethos of American youth, but the film's real message-which obviously appeals to Producer-Director-Writer George Axelrod-is delivered...
...wish I could be so enthusiastic about the rest of the concert. Mozart's 29th Symphoney suffered from out-of-tune high notes by the violins. The horns nearly saved the day with, mirabile dictu, a splendid performance--until the very end, when an ascending passage brought on the inevitable...
...your major subject is not listed in the index, refer to the sections describing the areas of the world in which you wish to work...
...procedure, Monro explained, is an attempt to eliminate the "popularity contests" which developed in the past when freshmen were required to express a first, second and third choice. In addition, the new system seeks to accomodate those Masters who do not wish to spend great amounts of time selecting incoming students by guaranteeing them a representative cross section of the freshmen class...