Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Semi-Conscious...
...capsule history of Renaissance art. Unfortunately, the dramatic clash of two iron-willed giants at odds over a ceiling seldom gets off the floor. Heston sweats, struggles up the scaffolding, and smears himself with color in a performance that merely adds another great stone profile to his gallery of semi-classical parts. Harrison, puncturing the most pontifical utterances with a tongue sharpened for wit, climbs roughshod over his talented hirelings-among them Bramante (Harry Andrews), the architect of St. Peter's, and Raphael (Tomas Milian), who appears to be impersonating a painting, not a painter...
...regret very much we cannot sign our names or invite you to cover our meetings - but as we have said, McCarthyism is not dead, and McCarranism is very much alive. In 1965 it is still only semi-legal to be a Communist in America, but we are confident that the day is not too far off when Communists will take their rightful, open places on American faculties, in American student bodies and in every phase of American life. Communist Party, U.S.A. Boston Area Youth Club
Floating Golf Game. Semi-retired now, Sobel's latest venture is a kind of floating golf game-a driving range on the deck of Eastern Steamship Lines' S.S. Ariadne, a cruise ship that tours the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Last week, feet spread to counteract the roll of the ship, he watched sadly as middle-aged duffers hooked and sliced into a net-and-canvas trap. "I've never seen so many different ways of hitting a golf ball," he sighed. "Nobody seems to do it right any more. Why, just the other...
While at Langley, Kraft married his high school classmate Betty Anne Turnbull. He had time in those days to play some semi-pro softball until Betty Anne insisted that he either improve or quit. He quit. He was also frustrated by the slow and relatively unexciting pace of work at Langley, became increasingly restless, and developed a serious stomach ulcer...