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...Recalling the first formulation of agricultural unions in the Po valley, it is a sharp, artistic portrait of the worker and his overlord. Each wrestles with the other to retain his inherited rights; yet it is clear that both are being beaten by rapid industrialization which forces everyone to abandon the traditional methods in order to survive. For two thirds of the movie each faction moves nearer and nearer to the inevitable clash. But, unaccountably, just at the point of pitched battle the cameras leave their social drama in the dust of a town square and turn their lens...
European artisans, merchants, and financeers still look forward to the summer influx of American tourists, but no longer with the wild abandon of the never-never days. With the rising percentage of students in the tourist crowd, the innocents abroad are becoming discriminate as to where they'll lose their innocence, and in what manner...
...tried to help them find an adviser either. Instead, he has just left them teetering. This precarious status has limited the HYP's activities considerably, since its members know that at any time they may have to tear their posters off University billboards, abandon plans involving the use of Harvard buildings, and retire to their rooms for further meetings...
Huntington has lost two of his starters, Captain Bob Marsolais and defenseman Jim Moynihan, because of academic difficulties. He has decided to abandon his system of having two equal lines, and will concentrate on his starting...
...page point-by-point refutation statement with him. From the opening hearing Committee members peppered Lattimore with a series of disjointed questions, they refused him the right to qualify statements or even to give personal opinions; Chairman McCarran struck cogent remarks from the record with an air of irresponsible abandon. In three and a half hours, Lattimore was able to read only four and a half paragraphs of his statement...