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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After spending the previous season at the wing position, Graney was switched to defense, where his performance became almost consistently better in successive games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graney, Fischer Receive Trophies For Hockey Team Performances | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

This leaves the Peabody free to pursue its basically educational policy as a museum of anthropology. That it is a scholars' museum becomes immediately obvious as one studies its most recent report. Almost all the space is spent in telling the research ventures of its Associates. As is usual, its collections have increased by well over ten thousand specimens and, as always, the Museum is in a restricted financial position...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Peabody Collection: Anthropologists' Delight | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

...folk singing concert, it is almost a curiosity that all of the selections are in English. When asked why the group did not sing foreign songs, Jones remarked, "I guess we don't know any." A better explanation might be gleaned from the group's parody of esoteric folk singing. Explaining that some Greenwich Villagers had criticized their repertoire as lacking in "real folk songs," they proceeded to sing "a real field song--Field Holler" ("We found it in a field," Jones said) and "a real mountain song--"Bring Me Back My Brown-Eyed Girl" ("We found...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: 3 Folk Sing | 5/19/1959 | See Source »

...this, the movie starts off well enough; it is, at the beginning, an almost excellent satire of the social climber, given bite by the implication that the climber's position is not so much his own fault as that of society. And some of society's offenders appear more sharply in this light than they do in the book. The gruff nature of M. de Renal, for one, is brilliantly emphasized, providing a clear motive for Julien's well meditated social ascent. Then, too, the seduction scenes are fine stuff, exhibiting some well coordinated pussyfooting from bedroom to bedroom...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Red and the Black | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...movie's concentration on the tragedy of it all, its insistence on showing Julien to be a maligned martyr, takes all the sharpness from the story; the movie-made transformation of Julien into a hero of almost homeric proportion destroys Stendahl's original theme. Even Danielle Darrieux's fine acting cannot detract from the fact that The Red and The Black is not meant to be a colossal soap opera...

Author: By Margaret A. Armstrong, | Title: The Red and the Black | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

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