Word: 1950s
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When the school settled down to a size of about 60 students in the 1950s, Manter Hall became a standard preparatory school, catering to students with special needs in grades nine through...
Realizing this, in the early 1950s, Dr. Jonas Salk used injections of dead polio viruses as a vaccine against the crippling and sometimes fatal disease, which rose to epidemic proportions each summer to strike victims such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04. On April 12, 1955, U.S. health officials proclaimed the vaccine a success...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Man of Marble" at 5 p.m. Anaggressive young woman filmmaker sets out tounravel the life of a now-forgotten figure whobecame a celebrity in the Stalinist 1950s...
...relative freedom which was abruptly ended by the Soviet invasion, set Havel's political career in motion. The significance of this period in recent Czech history is equalled only by the "Velvet Revolution" of 1989, during which Havel himself assumed the presidency. Kriseova explains how the oppressiveness of the 1950s had suffocated the peoples' voices of opposition. "After a shock, society comes to its senses slowly, one person at a time." Havel entered into an arena which would become increasingly political and further from the artistic circles where he had previously been known. Although Havel had never been aligned with...
...jealous of both parties at once." "My good fortune," Merrill also writes," was to stay in one place while the closet simply disintegrated." For many, the most interesting aspect A Different Person will be its recording of a rich, moderately open gay microworld from the early 1950s...