Word: fineness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Delhi, Bowles was as undiplomatic a diplomat as the class-conscious Indians had ever seen. He and his wife rode bicycles through the streets, sent their three children to local Indian schools, studied Hindi in Thirty Days. He got along fine with Nehru, but sometimes, say his critics, at the expense of the U.S. interest...
...fine administrator, Freeman took good care of the state's lagging education and welfare programs; in five years he spent $27 million on college buildings, added 1,500 beds to state mental hospitals, increased state aid to local school districts by $50 per pupil. But Fair Dealer Freeman also pushed property taxes to an alltime state high, ran into trouble last year with the normally cooperative legislature when he tried to install pay-as-you-go income taxes. G.O.P. opponents made much of the tax fight and chided Freeman's poor judgment in sending state militia to close...
...violence, and for it Jules Dassin (Rififi, Never on Sunday), who both wrote and directed the film, deserves full credit. Unfortunately, Moviemaker Dassin must also bear most of the blame for the rest, which is mildly but consistently awful. Adapted crudely from La Loi, Roger Vailland's fine Prix Goncourt novel of 1957, Hot Wind is laden with too many big European names (Gina Lollobrigida, Marcello Mastroianni, Pierre Brasseur, Paolo Stoppa, in addition to Montand and Mercouri). When not glumly stumbling over each other or aggressively hogging the camera, the actors all seem loyally determined to play down...
...KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, by Harper Lee. The little-girl heroine is only five when the book begins, only nine when it ends, but in that time she learns a lot about life in her Southern town and about life's continuing confrontation of good and evil. A fine first novel...
Camelot. While failing to live up to its extravagant expectations and to the richness of the Arthurian legend, the Lerner-Loewe work has sumptuous sets, a few fine songs, some stylishly medieval choreography and an expert performance by Richard Burton...