Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot concerns an aging wolf who manages to marry his nephew's intended. Once the marriage contract is signed, the sweet little bride turns into an extravagant shrew, and the poor fellow finds himself so hopelessly outmaneuvered that he is delighted to give the girl back to his nephew. The Met cast mercifully played everything in low key rather than for low comedy...
...crying "wolf" at every roll-call, the United States is weakening the confidence of its allies at the United Nations. After two months of deadlock over the essentially unimportant question of filling a non-permanent Security Council seat, the U.S. is still backing the Philippines against Yugoslavia--the candidate of both the Soviet bloc and much of Asia and Western Europe. This policy of trying to twist each minor decision into a tactical triumph over Russia may show immediate results, but in the long run the U.S. is losing a much more strategic victory--the continuing respect...
Mary Ruth Wolf, director of the entire volunteer set-up at Massachusetts General, feels that whether College volunteers are busy in the wards, at the telephone switchboard, or in the mail service, they are always acquiring what she calls "hospital sensitivity"--an ability to do the right thing at the right time under both emergency and ordinary conditions. It is this "sensitivity" which the program's pre-meds intently strive to attain...
...Romantic Guy, I became a top-hat-and-white-tie serenade, and Suddenly There Is a Valley went to a hospital, where a nurse (Dorothy Collins) sang her "song of optimism and faith" to a suffering patient. Autumn Leaves had a jazzy Red Riding Hood ruffle a slick "wolf" in a wooden glen...
...their customary condition of p.m. panic. "The oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York" is about to sink. Its proprietor, one Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), cannot raise the rent money for a suitably secluded backroom. Happens, however, he runs into Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a curly wolf at all games of chance, and lays the sucker a G he cannot make it to Havana, inside 24 hours, with a doll (Jean Simmons) named Sarah Brown, from the Save-A-Soul Mission...