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...varsity soccer team will play Cornell in Ithaca this morning at 11:30 a.m. without the valuable services of fullback Sandy Cortesi. Several other key performers will be absent or in battered condition as the Crimson opens its defense of the Ivy League title...
...role is extremely difficult when the role, as seen by the final spectator, consists of an edited sequence of camera shots. The elements of the role may have been shot over a period of weeks or months; dialogues may have been filmed with the actor's opposite absent; a single speech may consist of sections from several day's filming; the actor's performance may be placed in juxtaposition with other material, animate or inanimate, which will affect his impact in a way unknown to him at the time of performance. Much of Pudovkin is devoted to an examination...
...musical integrity which is most conspicuously absent from Pete Seeger's repertoire. One may call it naivete when he does an imitation of a "Japanese orchestra" by moaning painfully into the microphone for a few seconds--then stamping his foot, explaining "that's when they drop a brick on the floor; I just don't dig that rhythm...
Reckless Rush. At week's end reckless Patrice Lumumba took off for New York and the U.N. The heady prospect of having a world forum for his torrential words seems, in Lumumba's opinion, well worth the risk of being ousted from power while absent from his disordered homeland. In Leopoldville and some of the other large cities under U.N. control, a few factories were cautiously reopened by European managers, and peddlers were again hawking carved trinkets of ivory and mahogany on the streets. But there was promise of a new dispute. Belgian troops withdrew only...
...right shoe. When the time came to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, he graciously saluted the vanquished one by one-Running Mate Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, also scrappy Paul Butler, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the absent Harry Truman. Then Jack Kennedy plunged into his speech, proved with considerable eloquence that he had three things uppermost in his mind: his religion, his opponent, and a call for American greatness through sacrifice...