Word: buchananism
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...main political points: 1) President Eisenhower is, like President Buchanan, "a tired and amiable man with tired policies [who spreads] the contagion of his own confusion"; 2) the Administration has "dulled" the nation as to the U.S.S.R.'s strengths and the U.S.'s weaknesses with "sugarcoated half-truths"; and 3) the U.S. has developed a way of life in which truck drivers, bricklayers and factory workers are often better paid than professors, in which "an Elvis Presley makes more than the President...
Died. Jack Buchanan, sixtyish, versatile British song-and-danceman, TV performer and London theater owner; of spinal arthritis; in London. Scottish-born Buchanan once taught Laurence Olivier how to twirl a cane and twinkle his feet, was a leading comic at 19, made his first of many Broadway appearances in Andre Chariot's Revue of 1924 (with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence...
David Riesman '31, professor of Social Science at the University of Illinois and another leading theorist of general education, and Scott Buchanan, a former dean at St. John...
...Today," said Fund President Robert M. Hutchins, "social institutions have grown to gigantic size, with consequences which the authors of the Constitution could not even imagine." The ten who will examine those consequences: Columbia University's Law Professor Adolph A. Berle Jr., Editor Henry R. Luce, Philosopher Scott Buchanan, University of California's Political Scientist Eugene Burdick, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman, Chancellor Clark Kerr of the University of California, Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, Nobel Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, University of Chicago Anthropologist Robert Redfield, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr...
...same relation to the film as an M.C. to a series of blackouts. At least half the movie is made up of wacky little vaudeville routines, in which a stock Englishman and a stock Frenchman alternate the pratfalls. Major (ret.) William Marmaduke Thompson, C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E. (played by Jack Buchanan, the British George M. Cohan), is a cuff-shooting old harrumph who has left his best years East of Suez. Monsieur Taupin (played by Noel-Noel, a comedian who looks like a French edition of the late Robert Benchley) is a middle-aged owl with a skid-mark mustache...