Word: behinds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good deal less hospitable from the outside. No student living there will ever have an experience like that of one Smith alumna who lived in an old-fashioned dorm. Clambering in through a ground-floor window one night after hours (10 p.m.), she felt a friendly shove from behind, looked around to see Smith President William Allan Neilson winking...
...ceremonies celebrating the return of the loot, Grotewohl orated: "In saving all these priceless sculptures and paintings from destruction, while American bombers reduced Germany's cultural centers to rubble, the Soviet army once again demonstrates its noble mission and its high ideals." Nonsense, commented one high museum official behind his hand. "The Russians simply confiscated everything...
...Brando? Meanwhile, the Bird is busy with his other charges. Hollywood recognized his belligerent direction behind Director Rouben Mamoulian's recent spat with Sam Goldwyn. (Even Mamoulian does not seem to mind that the publicity-reaping battle cost him the job of directing Porgy and Bess.) And not long ago, Birdwell sold gullible movie columnists the phony yarn that Greta Garbo had expressed an interest in the movie version of Lolita. Director Stanley Kubrick, who is Birdwell's client, is supposed to have ruled Garbo out of Lolita but offered her the part of Marlon Brando...
...time since then until the Pilgrim Fathers to double the figure. When he was writing Brave New World, in 1931, world population stood at just under 2 billion. Today, "only 27 years later, there are 2,800,000,000 of us." People keep breeding, as it were, behind Huxley's back. Clean water, penicillin, DDT are also to blame, he says. Soon there will not be enough to eat, Huxley warns, and suggests that occupancy of this planet by more than 3 billion persons is dangerous and should be unlawful...
David Riesman '31, Ford Professor, led a panel discussion on the "behind the stove period facing the American woman" at Sarah Lawrence College Saturday. Christopher S. Jencks '58 was one of three speakers at the conference...