Word: briefed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broad staircase to the audience chambers on the second floor trooped bobby-soxers and Brahmins, camera-slung tourists, oilmen and stenographers and schoolteachers. One need be neither Catholic nor Christian to be received, and the white-robed Holy Father walked among them all, making brief small talk in six languages, handing out holy medals, even exchanging his white silk skull cap with some visitor who had brought one for the purpose. The New York Times's late Anne O'Hare McCormick described him thus: "He is straight, strong, taut as a watch spring, thin as a young tree...
...Compromise candidate. In case of a deadlock, the conclave may decide on an aged cardinal whose reign might be brief, postponing a decision (of the Italian cardinals, only three are under 70, of the whole college only...
...Cornell medley, A Harvard medley, A new Ivy League medley, A Walt Disney Fantasy, A special scoring of "The Star Spangled Banner" which we use at games and appropriate situations; Two concert arrangements, one of famous popular songs by Harvard alumni and a brief setting of "All the Things You Are" by Kern, and Two original marches...
...varsity, it did not have one of its better days. With the exception of brief stretches in the last two periods, Amherst consistently beat it to the ball and set its plays up more successfully. On two of the three Amherst goals, the Crimson defense failed to cover a wing who would get a pass from his opposite number across the field...
...brute and his half-wit mistress are subhuman, because inarticulate. This it is almost to be expected that a movie which details their adventures truthfully and without claptrap should quickly become wearisome. This is pointed up by the brief appearance of the tightrope walker, who is gloriously articulate. La Strada takes on its fullest life when he is onscreen. He is like a nimble, lively Orpheus in a hell of groping and grunting, and Richard Basehart plays him brilliantly. Signor Fellini has created one character of un-crippled humanity, and for a few scenes has matter worthy of the scrupulous...