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Word: flambeau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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...been quiet here since May 17," writes the newspaper editor at the University of North Carolina, and his statement is a key to Southern student opinion about the Supreme Court's outlawing of segregation in public schools. In a sampling of student editors, The Florida Flambeau found that despite some radical opinions on both sides, a wait-and-see attitude prevails in most Southern universities. This quiet seems to show that most college students have accepted eventual integration of whites and Negroes...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: Apathy and Hope | 12/17/1954 | See Source »

...script puts Father Brown (Alec Guinness) up to his usual trick of bringing a criminal not to the judicial bar but to the communion rail. His prospective proselyte : a famous international crook called Flambeau (Peter Finch). The cunning old fisher of men lets the devil bait the hook-with a pretty widow (Joan Greenwood). Widows, as somebody in the picture remarks, are irresistible because "if you are better than the first [husband], they are grateful, and if you are worse, they are not surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 15, 1954 | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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