Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...College's only course in journalism will be open to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in every case except the Editorial competition, which is open only to sophomores and juniors. In making their opening bid to Cambridge's Only Breakfast Table Daily, aspirants can guzzle free beer or coke to make the trip worth while...
...smoke remains unknown to the audience until the narrator's voice booms forth to explain that Karen has found God and will now return to live out her life in the fishing village. With the climax reduced to the incomprehensible, nothing much is left of this touted film except an exciting tuna catching scene...
With the scale of its season reduced to a sane level, Harvard would be able to compete on a par with Ivy League opponents except for one item: there is no system of job guarantees at Harvard. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth all offer this much to prospective athletes. Harvard, apparently, wants nothing to do with official job guarantees to its football players. Such a plan involving no more than 50 men would probably hit stonewall resistance--but help for athletes in the form of honest jobs need not depend on favoritism of any sort...
...Santa Rosa de Lima, which Doña María had built, and where her husband is entombed. Her body was to be placed beside his. Just before the ceremony, a messenger arrived from City Hall to remind church authorities that an old sanitary ordinance forbade burial except in cemeteries. The priests protested that they had long since gotten a special dispensation from the municipality to put Doña María in a crypt in the church, just as they had for her husband 8 years before. That dispensation, they were brusquely told, was no longer effective...
Sticking closely to the play, the action, except for a few opening shots, is pinned down to a group of thatched huts which serve as hospital wards; the story, which entails a good deal of talk, is penned in by the calculated artifice of theatrical form. The camera adds little more than the emphasis and searching intimacy of closeups. Yet a fine cast under Director Vincent Sherman gives a performance that should tie audiences into emotional knots. The picture's best job: a superlative portrayal by British Actor Richard Todd in his first major screen role...