Word: classing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard is a liberal school. Anyone will tell you that. For instance, one Harvard committee is so liberal that it recommends that the College refuse to accept tainted NDEA funds from the United States government. In fact, the students don't have to go to class, or even come in on time after dates. Harvard is indeed a liberal school...
...gymkhana sponsored by the MIT Sports Car Club, Phil Bradley took the touring class in his Fiat 1100, and Grey Jones placed a close second in the small sports class with his MGA 1600. His time was the second fastest...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). G. B. Shaw's class-conscious comedy, Mix-alliance, with a classy cast: Claire Bloom, Siobhan McKenna, Rod Taylor and Robert Morley...
Last week's star-studded production was often brilliant, but not everywhere right. There were superb performances by Pamela Brown as Shotover's snooty upper-class daughter, by Diana Wynyard as his masterfully radiant one, by Alan Webb, despite the hurdle of being the good man of the play. But there was merely competent performing too. And the last scene lacked any touch of magic, partly because it wore too lively an air, partly because Ben Edwards' all-purpose set placed it in a well-lighted sort of courtyard instead of a dusky, dreamlike garden...
...minor art form, genre is now largely superseded by photography, a similar and also minor art form. But in the mid-19th century, a host of American journeymen-artists practiced genre painting with extraordinary success. The rising middle class of the period paid well and cheerfully for competent pictures of the things to be seen through their own windows: Drawing a Bead on a Woodchuck, Cornhusking, The German Immigrant Enquiring His Way, The Organ Grinder, The Sailor's Wedding. All that seems quaint about such pictures helped give them a soothing familiarity in their own time. The passing generations...