Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BERNARD J. KEEFE...
...described in her latest book, Shadows on the Grass (TIME, Jan. 6), a country where "the white pioneers lived in guileless harmony with the children of the land." Following a three-month stretch for contempt of court and two months of treatment in three mental institutions, Textile Tycoon Bernard Goldfine, 70, was ruled mentally competent to stand trial on charges of evading $791,745 in federal income taxes. Noting that the industrialist had managed to conduct business operations from one of the institutions and had "bribed hospital attendants to send telegrams," a U.S. judge found the gift-bearing crony...
...Bernard Malamud, whose collection of short stories, The Magic Barrel, won the National Book Award for fiction in 1959, will direct an advanced course in fiction writing. No limit for enrollment in the course has yet been established...
...were particularly concerned with the scrap over school integration. Alabama-reared John Thompson had moved his family of seven into the McDonogh 19 school district after the boycott began, joined his neighbors in sending his boys on the long bus ride to the lily-white schools of St. Bernard Parish. Then Thompson noticed that Greg was reading from the same primer he had used the year before in Alabama, where "the schools ain't too far ahead." And one rainy day the school bus driver bawled the boys out and made them walk home. Thompson got sore and decided...
...Millionairess (Dimitri de Grunwald; 20th Century-Fox) is made from an old show-business recipe for success: when the joke is bad, make the worst of it. The joke, written in this case by George Bernard Shaw, was a 1936 profiteer-jerker that parodied the plight of those who have money and think it will buy anything. In this revival, Director Anthony Asquith makes a parody of the parody, and where the play becomes too talky, he has the good sense to decree that the Shaw must not go on. He also makes the most of Sophia Loren, who consistently...