Word: except
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dutch sailors were looking for a land of ivory and spices and gold. What they found was a barren country inhabited by terrifying savages and startling kangaroos. They named the place "New Holland," but except for a few explorations, the Dutch abandoned Australia to the savages, the kangaroos and the British...
...cliche was neither surprising nor--for an American audience--persuasive, except for mass and length. The demonstration that the commonplace and the so-called "good German" characteristics played their part was more terrifying. Granted they did not appear in the stadium scenes, nor in the torchlight undertakings, whose purpose was to make the individual forget himself and his responsibilities in the Movement. But the act in the city itself played up the connection between the Party and German culture. Hitler was shown accepting flowers from children (blond almost without exception), shaking hands and talking with idolizing women in peasant costume...
...long as informal interchange of ideas is considered desirable, no mere timidity should keep students and teachers apart. Tutors can play their part by observing an informal rule that no more than two tutors sit down together at the same table, except at the weekly tutors' luncheons. This practice has worked well in those Houses which have followed it. Tutor's "high tables" should be eliminated altogether, except for special functions, and those tutors, resident or non-resident, who have tutees in the House should make an active effort to meet them informally. Students for their part, should get over...
Producer-Scripter-Director Robert Ros-sen's All the King's Men won the New York critics' award as 1949's best English-language picture, but failed to appear on the National Board's ten-best list. Except for The Bicycle Thief, only four films won recognition from both groups: Britain's The Fallen Idol and Quartet, MGM's Intruder in the Dust, and France's Devil in the Flesh...
...currently playing. It is the composite work of eight songwriters and 11 sketchwriters. It has an esteemed producer and a famous set designer. Its cast includes some of the brighter young names on Broadway. It could have been a swell show but it certainly isn't. In fact, except for some of the sets, all elements of "Dance Me A Song" are just basically mediocre and no amount of personable performing can help them...