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...freedom of expression and a more sophisticated audience response to film were the two most important developments, according to Logan. Mrs. Crist attributed the change in audience reaction to the audio-visual orientation of modern society. The younger generation was "weaned with television," she said. The "magic" of stuntmen and special effects has been destroyed. However she added that this technical appreciation did not imply a more sophisticated criticism of intellectual content...
...Crist, "personal filmmaking"--the underground, experimental film movement--is the most important film development since World...
...three panelists were Joshua Logan, well-known film and stage director who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for his work on South Pacific; Judith Crist, film and drama critics for NBC-TV and TV Guide; and Shirley Clarke, underground filmmaker in New York City...
...feature departments, largely because of the people pulled in from the Trib. Only in the drama section is Conniff still floundering. The New York Times got the Trib's Walter Kerr, and the W.J.T. is still searching for a critic. The job was offered to Judith Crist, who turned it down in favor of films. "That's where the action is," she says. "The snob appeal of theater reviewing is lost on me." The Trib's Eugenia Sheppard will edit the woman's page; her staff will boast Hearst's wry society columnist, Suzy Knickerbocker...
...occurred to me I didn't have the foggiest notion what college was all about," recalls Robert Watkins, a graduate of St. George's prep school in Newport, R.I. "I wasn't ready." Some 4,000 miles away in Lugano, southernmost city in Switzerland, Mrs. Mary Crist Fleming, 54, was pondering a related idea. "Every bit of extra maturity and training a high school graduate can get before entering college is going to help," she said. "They need a breather, a chance to get excited again about learning...