Word: 1940s
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...British psychologist Cyril Burt was eminent in his profession: he held the psychology chair at London's University College, was knighted by King George VI and won the Thorndike award from the American Psychological Association. As a government adviser, he helped restructure the British educational system in the 1940s. Now, five years after his death, Burt is the object of a growing scandal. He has been accused of doctoring data and signing the names of others to reports that he wrote. If the charges are proved true, said Science magazine last week, "the forgery may rank with that...
COEDUCATION--The first steps toward coeducation at Harvard were taken out of necessity, not out of social or political principle. From 1882 until the 1940s, sexual segregation was so stringently adhered to that professors often repeated lectures twice a day--once in the morning for the men at Harvard, and once in the afternoon for the women at Radcliffe. But when World War II broke out in the 1940s, such a large portion of the faculty went on active duty that the dearth of lecturers forced the two colleges to share these prized commodities. This temporary measure was made permanent...
...newly won popularity, bringing with it TV guest appearances and a national tour the first of the year, may even get them to Hollywood. Right now Savannah is hunting for backers so that they can finish a film they have already started. According to Stony, it is a 1940s Dead End Kids musical. Guess who plays the brats...
...opened in March at a New York repertory theater, and supplied many cast members for the national company that is doing the Boston production. Many of these actors, including Mabel Lee, Jay Flash Riley, and Vernon Washington are, in turn, recreating roles they originally perfected during the 1930s and 1940s...
More persistent than Banquo's ghost or a Brittanica salesman, the phenomenon of the Hollywood Ten trial, and the terrible trouble people with a past encountered in the 1940s and '50s, still dogs us almost thirty years after it started. Each time it shows up it invokes terrible bitterness that doesn't seem to subside with time. Even the week before last The New York Times devoted a series of spreads to a bout between two old birds (Lillian Hellman and Diana Trilling) slugging it out for whatever audience still wants to know who acted badly during the bad times...