Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong points (named Len Oniskey) and weaknesses. The scouting reports and Marsh's exceptionally fine play-calling allowed the Crimson to exploit the weaknesses to the fullest. One can only wonder why the Big Red, with a very slick passer in Bill De Graaf, and with no openings through the middle, did not pass more...
...affair surpasses anything that even the most fertile imagination could conceive," cried Paris' L'Intransigeant. "The truth is somewhere . . . but one begins to wonder if it will ever see the light...
...deep-burning focus in the characterization of Terry Malloy. The role demanded all that Kowalski had, and far more. Kowalski was a brute, and to understand him Brando's heart had to die a little. Terry Malloy was a brute who was turning, in agony and wonder, into a human being, and to interpret him Brando had to take the more painful brunt of being born...
MADAME DE, by Louise de Vilmorin, translated by Duff Cooper (54 pp.; Messner; $2.50), is a literary visit from the frail, salon-bred French writer whose fans think that she may succeed to Colette's place as first lady of French letters. Author de Vilmorin has a wonderful flair for wacky as well as genuine elegance, and writes with a kind of passionate superficiality rarely attempted since the courtly novel died with the French court. Madame De, already known to some U.S. moviegoers in an excellent screen version (TIME, July 26), is a high-society triangle in which...
...recent announcement that Lamont Library's extended hours would be so soon withdrawn seem somewhat predetermined to the many who used the privileges last spring. Anyone who took advantage of the Sunday hours can only wonder how Lamont officials can mumble about lack of use. That the officials themselves seem uncertain whether the reason is too many students leaving debris everywhere, or too few students, or that the plan is unfair to House libraries seems to indicate someone searching for an excuse. The officials charge that the Library wasn't used enough to justify the expense seems the reverse...