Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dying consumptive girl cries out in fear of the whiteness of the window in the early twilight. But, even though the color is muted in these scenes, it protrudes everywhere; and the directing seems to feel obligated to follow the color--to feel obligated to keep everything clean and bright, to remain aloof, to treat the pathos as though it were an awkward intrusion which must be made the best...
...Best of Everything (20th Century-Fox), based on Rona Jaffe's bestselling novel (TIME. Sept. 15, 1958), tells what happens to the bright young things from college that come wriggling down to Manhattan to get in The Big Swim. They land in The Typing Pool. And from there, it is only another wriggle to The Flesh Pot. Compared with the hot buttered Manhattan of Authoress Jaffe's imagination, the Hollywood version of the big city is a sort of cautiously diluted Scotch-and-Sodom. Nevertheless, a virgin's virtue can dissolve with appalling celerity in this sinister...
With military precision and the help of expanded studies in the humanities, U.S. service academies this year plucked a prize bag of Rhodes scholarships. The impetus: a sharp new drive at West Point and the Air Academy* to plunge bright graduates into the heady whirl of Britain's ancient Oxford University. The Air Academy won its first scholarship, and there were a record five for West Pointt (matched only by Harvard). Recalls one awed civilian competitor, who stepped into the exam ring with them: "They looked like tall glasses of cold milk...
...last week, bright, shiny-eyed Abdel Rasik Hefny, 15, had seen his thoughtful gesture blossom amazingly. An orphan, and sole support of a younger brother, Abdel was earning 75? a day on good days. He is now a delighted student at one of suburban Cairo's finest private schools; he is aiming for a Swiss university and perhaps medical school. He is well on the way to realizing a dream that seemed fantastic last year: "To become an educated man and help my people...
Highballing along with a fine head of steam, the U.S. economy rolled into fall at near top speed. Latest statistics from Government and industry showed that production, employment and the earnings of the nation's corporations were all at high levels. Overhanging this bright picture of performance so far this year was a cloud cast by the effects of the steel strike, which will be felt for weeks to come (see below...