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Thus, this spirit, this primary product of education, need not always produce the right answers to be preferable. No matter how cultivated a graduate is, if he has graduated without "a zest for intellectual adventure," he has spent four years sophisticating ignorance...
Battleground Ahead. With this kind of bounce and zest, the top brass looks forward to the fast-approaching day of a buyers' market in cars. They think that will be their chance to make the Ford car once more the No. i seller, knock out Chevrolet. At present, G.M. and Ford are selling all the Chevvys and Fords they can make. Since G.M. has greater productive capacity, it can turn out more Chevvys than Ford can make Fords...
With its royalty and rogues, affairs of state and of heart, and conquests military and romantic, Fanfan the Tulip bulges with color. Gerard (Devil in the Flesh) Philipe bounces through the title role with zest, leaping from balconies, rooftops and cliffs with the greatest of ease, riding a white charger to the rescue of fair damsels, besting his enemies with fists, swords and guns and altogether making an entirely likable scamp. As the main object of his affections, Italian Actress Gina Lollobrigida is so shapely that she seems to bulge from the screen in the best 3-D style. Directed...
...real murderer's confession, is accused of the same murder. As the young priest, callow Montgomery Clift turns in a fine, sensitive performance. But by far the best actor is O. E. Hasse. Playing the warped, half-mad killer, he excites pity and hate with equal verve. Adding new zest to a standard role, Karl Malden plays the relentless, somewhat sadistic police inspector. Brian Aherne, a jovial but brilliant Crown Prosecutor, and Anne Baxter as the frustrated lover of the young priest, round out an exceptional cast...
Babe tried to stop bragging and boasting. She made George give up wrestling. She began giving herself home permanents ("I just follow the directions on the box"). With housewifely zest, she pitched into making curtains and raising flowers. But even in the garden there was competition. "I know I can't make my flowers grow any faster," she said, "but I want them to be the prettiest and the healthiest."^ In line with her determination to be a "grownup married woman and not a 14-year-old javelin thrower," she concentrated on golf hoping that some of its gentler...