Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indefatigable Hollywood last week put on its 20th annual Academy Award ceremony. As usual, there was the most brilliant possible fanfare, and very little happened that was surprising...
...nobody's surprise, Gentleman's Agreement was named the year's best picture. It also won Elia Kazan an Oscar for his direction. In accepting the Oscar for the film, 20th Century-Fox's long-memoried Darryl Zanuck firmly reminded everyone: "This makes up for an earlier disappointment . . . still a picture of which I am proud, Wilson...
Music programmed for the tour covers nearly every period of choral composition from the Madrigals of Gasteldi to 20th Century compositions such as Stravinsky's "Oedipus...
Boston University made a nice distinction between radio and cinema arts: to 20th Century-Fox's Spyros P. Skouras and J. Arthur Rank's J. Arthur Rank went honorary doctorates of laws; to RCA's David Sarnoff an honorary doctorate of commercial science...
Future historians of 20th Century totalitarianism will puzzle over this paradox: the most effective anti-Nazi novel (On the Marble Cliffs) published in Germany during Hitler's reign was written by a prominent Nazi writer...