Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the match was over, Gonzales had plenty of cause to be worried. At the peak of his game, Lew Hoad anticipated returns like a mind reader, served with devastating power, and blasted aging Pancho off the court. 6-1, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1. The old king of the tennis world had a young pretender to contend with...
...libretto, by Italy's Carlo Goldoni, is a typical 18th century spoof of intriguing lovers and amateur scientists, involving a fat and foolish old father who will not let his two daughters marry suitors he disapproves of. When the old man peers through a telescope at the moon and thinks he spots a bevy of handsomely configured nymphs cavorting about in the near nude, one of his prospective sons-in-law feeds him a magic elixir that, he is told, will transport him to the wonderful moon world. Convinced, when he comes to, that he really...
Visually, The Nun's Story is almost dazingly beautiful. The colors are rich and sensuous, the light innocent and cool; and when light and color play together on the medieval stones of Bruges or Brussels, the screen glows like an awakened frame of old Vermeer. Dramatically, the film has been admirably conceived and impressively executed. Religiously, it is rather shallow. There is merit in the picture's painstaking effort to convey the physical reality of convent life, but somewhere the spiritual reality is lost. The radiant pageant of devotion ravishes the senses, but it does not touch...
...university "trained its young men for administration, for the Indian Empire, for the purpose of perpetuating the culture itself, but never in any circumstances to equip them to understand the revolution or take part in it ... The academics had nothing to do with the industrial revolution; as Corrie, the old Master of Jesus College, said about trains running into Cambridge on Sunday, 'It is equally displeasing to God and to myself...
...44th triennial convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod labored to keep their closely knit conservative denomination (2,200,000 members) as closely knit and conservative as ever. To further both aims, the convention re-elected Dr. John W. Behnken president for another three-year term. To 75-year-old Dr. Behnken, who has headed the synod for the past 24 years, sound and solid doctrinal agreement is the only safe basis of collaboration with any other church body; his election is a guarantee that the Missouri Synod will continue to stay outside the Lutheran World Federation, an international organization...