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...script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...
This example, based on a salary of $2,699 in Class Eight is very misleading, as the largest group comes under Class Six. If I took the time to make a comparison between the new retirement plan and Social Security. Therefore, I fail to see anything in the law to prohibit Harvard University from giving its employees something as good as Social Security. George A. Porter
...Certain provocative postures accentuate still more the indecency . . . especially ... a certain posture (pardon the comparison!) which brings to mind a posture that dogs often use. These ladies seem to think it impossible to skate gracefully without lifting a leg as high as possible . . . and facing the audience...
Leverett, the third crew so far to launch their craft on the choppy waters of the Charles, is inexperienced in comparison to the Puritans and Deacons, but may threaten the leaders by the season...
...which to pick out a few schools that stress his particular field. A senior at California, for instance, might easily waste valuable time discovering that Harvard was no place to go for graduate training in Geography, or some other "weak" area. But from a booklet compilation containing a factual comparison of the scope of graduate programs offered by universities all over the country in a specific field, he could quickly narrow his search to two or three schools, if not choose outright. The information--not evaluation--could be gathered by such organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation or the American Association...