Word: letdowns
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WHEN WILLIAM POWELL. Boston brahmin dropout from the purposeless life of the idle rich reveals at the end of La Cava's My Man Godtrey that his idea of how to cure Depression America's woes is to build nightclubs staffed by the unemployed, the letdown we feel is the characteristic failure of. Hollywood comedies about social problems. Throughout the film. Powell describes the injustice of a system which permits the callous extravagance of the society families he serves as butler, yet when the smoke clears the flowing champagne on Sulton Place drowns the social' criticism which gave the film...
John McCarthy's racquetwomen were expected to walk away with the match, but the squad had a tough time of it because of the letdown following last Saturday's drubbing at the hands of Yale, dropping Radcliffe from the unbeaten ranks...
...more than 110 demonstrators who shouted. "We're not fooled by Harvard's bluff. The Strauch report is not enough," in front of University Hall last week, the final word that came out of the Faculty meeting inside was a bit of a letdown...
...expansion team to win the Stanley Cup. For his extraordinary performance, Parent was named playoff Most Valuable Player. This year, with the season two-thirds completed, Parent is once again setting the pace for goalies with nine shutouts and a goals-against average of 2.01. Even after a recent letdown, the Flyers own first place in their division of the National Hockey League. Says Flyer Captain Bobby Clarke: "Bernie makes you feel like you can walk on water...
...letdown - he would almost have to be - he is also guaranteed to be what you would hardly expect...