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Munro's squad has little to be over-confident about, however. Last year the Ephs gave the Crimson a stiff battle before bowing, 2 to 1. Another letdown like the slump a week ago against B.U. could be fatal today...
Cosimo becomes famous. Voltaire inquires about him, and when Napoleon visits Ombrosa he chats with Cosimo, risking a stiff neck as he looks up to the treed man. Cosimo has adventures with bandits and pirates that Douglas Fairbanks Sr. would have been embarrassed to find in a movie script, and enjoys a love affair that is as notable for its acrobatics as for its passion. He is neither an outcast nor a misanthrope. In fact, he is a heroic do-gooder whose office just happens to be a forked tree...
...adapted for the movies by Jean-Paul Sartre, the Salem witch trials emerge as a plot by the aristocracy to chastize and control the stiff-necked rabble of the town. Thus, in the movie version, Proctor chooses to die for a cause rather than to preserve his own integrity. This distortion, coupled with an over-simplification of the motives of each character, considerably lessens the dramatic power of Miller's play...
...pain from a kidney disease. Commissioned at 14, James Wolfe had earned a reputation as a priggish martinet who scorned wining and wenching but relished the meanest chores in his scramble for rank. He had fought well in Flanders against the French, and William Pitt the Elder recommended the stiff-necked young major general to run the siege of Quebec, France's major stronghold in America...
...More and more white builders, sensing the demand for decent, moderate-priced Negro housing, have taken the plunge into the suburban market. It has its special hazards; in some areas, white building inspectors and utility companies drag their feet when Negro tracts open. Negro mortgage money is often a stiff 1% or 2% more than for whites (it is easier to get loans for prospering Negroes in the Deep South than it is in Northern states). But mortgage companies are beginning to realize that steadily employed Negroes are a good risk. Chicago's Park Terrace even has a layaway...