Word: sorting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Suggestions from the Hall Presidents ranged from simply increasing the number of late permissions to allowing unlimited "one o'clocks." Dean Brown commented that some sort of limitation is necessary to satisfy parents and to encourage freshmen to budget their time...
...year's talkiest talkie Coward: "It's amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue of a discus thrower: What sort of a country is dis? Puttin up a monument of a guy stealin' hubcaps...
...story of Weddings is less important than the way it is told. Director Engel has attempted a sort of "candid cinema,' in which the principles of art are continuously (and sometimes unfortunately) subordinated to the flow of life. He often throws away his working script' encourages his actors to improvise. Then he moves around them with a portable camera and tracks the action as it develops, catching this, missing that, taking his chances and riding his luck...
Thomson has a sort of small-boy wonder about his own success. "Have you ever heard of anything bigger?" he asked while marveling at his own audacity in paying $14 million for a two-thirds interest in England's big Kemsley chain. But he keeps his adult head about him. Horrified to discover that the 40-page Sunday Times was turning away ads for lack of space, Thomson gave orders to add eight pages, intends to go to 64 if necessary...
...until this election--it was needless. With mandates in '52 and '56 so powerful that the men in the Eisenhower government could have told hard, unpopular truths to the American people, they chose instead to play insecure and intimidated roles. Unreasonably afraid of the people's reaction to any sort of bad news at home or abroad, they preferred deception, suppression of facts, and silence, to running the small political risk of being unpopularly right too soon...