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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is needed on the question of tutorial is, first, less argument and more cooperation and compromise, and, second, more thought about the problem at the center of the University and less option for the individual departments. Tutorial is dying--in fact, is as close to dead as is imaginable--because it became financially impractical in its original form. In the financial rush to get away from it, compromise has been almost negligible, and it is this compromise which might save the elements of tutorial which make it still the only sound way to unify education in a lecture system...
...Toscanini telecasts, with their remarkable, moving close-ups of the maestro and the orchestra, were a television milestone (TIME, March 29). But pictures of jazz bands tootling are as dull on television as they are on a movie screen. Crooners, in particular, are finding the telecamera's unwinking stare an embarrassing experience. (Notable exception: NBC's pretty Singer Kyle MacDonnell, an unknown to radio listeners, but already becoming television's No. 1 pin-up girl...
...brokers flashed the word, the Stock Exchange was deluged with orders to buy. In the final hour of trading, close to $30 million worth of shares were sold; the highspeed ticker fell behind as much as five minutes...
...very slow and very dark. But Dreyer has used timing and lighting so artfully that his characters seldom have to speak and never waste a word; he has gone farther than most moviemakers towards solving the difficult problems of silent cinema in a talk-ridden era. Some of his close-ups are extraordinarily long, but they are brimming with substance: the subtle, beautifully acted modulations of deep moral anguish...
...Brothers (Rank; Prestige) is one of those "stark" dramas about people very close to nature, in which strong men snarl at each other over a morsel of feminine flotsam (Patricia Roc), primitive passions are stripped to their G-strings, simple folk lap up their liquor as avidly as so many intellectuals, and the dialect is as hard to get through as a barbed-wire entanglement...