Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is much more to the Summer School than the nightly collection of hungry males ogling the windows of female - filled Wiggles-worth, the sight of a bare nail-polished foot extended upon a chair during a final exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed...
...evening programs. The audience: station personnel, admen and newsmen in 140 U.S. cities. Madison Avenue time buyers, the cold-eyed crew whom Bob Hope greeted as "the grey flannel Mafia," seemed satisfied at show's end that their share of the country's picture tubes might be worth the price...
...gypsy woman first sang the song to Folklorist John A. Lomax in Fort Worth, and in no time he made it one of the most famous cowboy songs in the land. Traveling in a model A Ford, with his young son Alan as an occasional companion, he took the song with him on his far-ranging folk-song safaris in the 1930's, twanged it at campfires and from college platforms. Two decades later in Dublin, carrying on his father's research, Alan Lomax heard Irish Folklorist Seamus Ennis sing an almost identical Irish lay about...
Although Hemingway's characters are there, Hemingway seems generaly missing; but this is perhaps an insurmountable hurdle in making a book into a film. In any event it was adequately done, and Miss Bergman is at any time worth the price of admission...
...Lower Midlands. The chimes in the stone tower of the Anglican Church peal over sheep meadows and farmers' plots, over royal parks and public playgrounds. The town is small; only six trains per day chuff up to the dead-end terminal to disgorge the Cockney families from Wands-worth or Chipping Norton or Stepney who come to enjoy a day on the river...