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...This typical Cabot Hall girl (top) was quoted as saying "I always knew what kind of people lived on the other side of the quad." The cause of the invasion was a painting called "Lower Depths" by Hortense Walpurgisnacht '55 depicting the average Briggs girl. It was quickly torn down by the invaders...
...tragedy for his English libretto, produced what the brothers call "a story of Romeo and Juliet set forth in ... cabalistic symbolism." An impoverished young Talmudic scholar named Channon wants to marry Leah, the daughter of a practical bourgeois type who thinks his daughter can do a lot better. Torn with love and bitterness, Channon studies mystic books, tampers with the supernatural, and is struck dead. But he returns as a dybbuk, to inhabit the body of Leah herself, just as she is presented with her wedding veil. In the final act, a rabbi exorcises the dybbuk, but Leah collapses...
...seems that the idylls of memory and legend are no longer to be found. Beautiful Bali is torn by revolution, Shanghai is a pit of poverty where sin is sold in the marketplace and loses its flavor, and New York still races to its grave...
...Anderson-Thye amendment has all but torn this web apart, leaving other members of GATT with the feeling that U.S. trade policy is insincere and undependable. Already three countries, Denmark, Holland, and Canada have accused the United States at the recent GATT conference in Geneva of "impairing and nullifying" the agreement, and all that Undersecretary of State Willard Thorpe could do at the time was admit...
Based on a better-than-average crime novel by Eleazar Lipsky, the film is played as though everyone concerned enjoyed making it. Director John Sturges draws a distinctive gallery of urban types, with zoot-suited William Campbell as a gabby delinquent, John Hodiak as a district attorney torn between ambition and pity, and Jay C. Flippen as a Scandinavian sailor out to make a quick buck. Tracy generates considerable sympathy as the unstable lawyer, makes understandable the willingness of both the police and the underworld to help him out of a tough spot...