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...operation selections are poorly played and largely omitted, but those who go for other things (such as Viviane Romance) will not be downcast. Playing the title role, the smolders through almost every scene and in places performs very well (or very badly, depending on your moral inclinations.) Her emotional abandon and her variety of facial expressions make the captions largely unnecessary, and the translation are quite idiomatic, but at the times when captions were essential for unscrambling French blasphemy or innuendo, they were succinctly reduced to "! ! !" Expressive, but not very lucid...
...afternoon, "Jack" Fuess sliced his way with more than his customary abandon around the country-club golf course, allowed only an occasional dreihunderttausend Donner-wetter to escape his lips. At 62, Fuess thought that he and Andover both needed a change. His old friend Lewis Perry had resigned as principal of nearby Phillips Exeter Academy,* and that had helped decide him. "My generation has done its job. If I stayed here long enough, I'd become...
Legend and the mating instinct have it that the winner of the hoopla will be the first to abandon the primrose path for the middle aisle...
...logic is twofold; first, the graduate work is in many respects repetitive, and therefore the student might profit more by exploring other fields of study, secondly, the graduate work, though repetitive, is quite different in its approach, and the student must frequently abandon his theoretical concepts in the face of the practical application, or else reconcile the two. For graduate study in Economics proper, undergraduate concentration is of course essential...
Great Britain is, as yet, unwilling to abandon Empire Preference, although she heartily agrees to over-all tariff reductions. Her reluctance to meet America all the way is based, in part, upon her uncertainty as to whether our tariffs will again become a political football as well as her fear that American prosperity is at best an ephemeral thing. But Britain is also overly sensitive of her unaccustomed role of debtor nation and tends to keep a too watchful eye on bank balances, at the expense of economic initiative...