Word: zeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.M.A. has five jeeps, seven G.M.C. six-wheeler trucks, two radios. Also under Le Huu Tu's "exclusive authority" are 5,800 militiamen equipped with very little but bush hats, about 30 old rifles per company of 120 men, and a good deal of zeal...
...period and locale come alive in fine sets and props; Actor Hernandez and Dean Stockwell (as the parson's ward) give unusually good performances; the script furnishes some tangy color (e.g., the visit of a brassy medicine show), and Director Jacques Tourneur flavors the corn with the poetic zeal of a French chef...
...choosing a man with Mitropoulos' zeal for new music, however, the Philharmonic trustees have taken something of a gamble. The new conductor's programming may drive some of the more traditional away from the box office, and 1950 is a poor year for the Philharmonic to do that. The symphony ended last season with an $81,500 deficit. This season, for the second year in a row, subscriptions are down and the Philharmonic has no sponsor for its Sunday broadcasts. Nonetheless, Mitropoulos' arguments have convinced the Philharmonic's board that he is on the right track...
...immorality of women staying in students' rooms until midnight. But anything that can be done in the rooms between 8 and 12 can be done before 8, and it is certainly no more moral for students and their dates to be sitting in local bars all evening. In its zeal to keep the Houses pure, the Administration has only moved the basic problem a little way up Dunster Street, and has achieved no solution...
...Story of America" by Historian David S. Muzzey) and reprints of such children's classics as Kipling's How the Camel Got His Hump and Stevenson's Escape at Bedtime. Like everything sober-minded George Hecht has published, it looked like a nice mixture of his zeal for child welfare-and profits...