Word: womens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great God Brown, his psychological quarry was the split personality, his technical gimmick the use of masks. Turning a masked face to the world, Dion Anthony (Fritz Weaver) seems Panlike, violent, blasphemous, sexually magnetic. Without his mask, Anthony quivers and quakes, is reverent toward God and repellent to women. Dion's school friend Billy Brown (Robert Lansing) grows up decent and successful but frustrated. He envies Dion's personality, craves Dion's wife, and, at Dion's death, snatches the mask that made Dion unstable and violent...
...good way to hold down prizes was to restrict the points rolled up by any fixed winner. One indignant Twenty One veteran, greying Mrs. Rose Leibbrand, executive director of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, explained how it was done. Just before showtime Producer Freedman fed her the answers, and a warning: "Just remember not to bid over seven or eight -or else...
...Charles) Easton Rothwell, 57, as eighth president of select (enrollment: 726) Mills College for women, "the Vassar of the West," in Oakland, Calif. Historian Rothwell succeeds Historian Lynn White Jr., who quit after 15 years to teach medieval history at U.C.L.A. A stocky, balding Westerner, raised in Montana, Easton Rothwell graduated from Portland's Reed College (1924), taught social sciences at the University of Oregon and Stanford. He switched to the State Department in World War II, became a top adviser to Cordell Hull, went on in 1947 to Stanford's famed Hoover Institute of War, Revolution...
...live for three days like an American tourist. Thus the film alternates between unsuccessful farce and success-formula soap opera, but it never quite lives up to its pressagentry as "twists of tender pathos sublimated by laughter before the pathos can descend to bathos." The Man Who Understood Women is bathos cubed...
...French teacher-fittingly enough, because she is also the mistress of the French ambassador. And so it goes. Yet he has not altogether forgotten Henriette. Years later, they will meet again. By that time she will be fat and Casanova feeble. As Havelock Ellis pointed out, the same women appear again and again in the Memoirs; it is perhaps a mark of the true Casanova that he can stay friends with his former mistresses...