Word: davide
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...affair between father (David Niven) and daughter (Jean Seberg), which takes place mostly on the French Riviera, is not physical. Incest, as this story sees it, is emotional infantilism-the fear of life, the compulsion to security, the marriage with death. The marriage is consummated, not with a gesture of creation but with an act of destruction. The daughter murders her father's mistress (Deborah Kerr). Technically, the death is either a suicide or an accident, but if the method is euphemistic the meaning is clear. Father and daughter drift off on an aimless round of inconsequential pleasures...
Other officers chosen were Stefan D. Abrams '60 of Eliot House and Waban, treasurer, and David M. Perlmutter '59 of Lowell House and Glencoe, Ill., Secretary. Although all candidates were discussed by members of the old and new Councils, voting was done solely by members of the 1958 Council, all but two of whom are on the Council for the first time...
Benjamin R. Neilson '60, of Lowell House and St. David's, Pa. has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship...
...National Board of Review of Motion Pictures-the weightiest U.S. cinematic arbiters-announced their "best" choices, found themselves agreeing more than usual. Both groups marked The Bridge on the River Kwai (Sam Spiegel; Columbia) as the year's finest U.S.-produced film, Bridge's Alec Guinness and David Lean as best actor and director. Other decisions were split. Best actress: Deborah Kerr in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (Critics), Joanne Woodward in The Three Faces of Eve (Board). Best foreign movie: Gervaise (Critics), Ordet (Board...
...celebrating its sesquiscentennial, The Pierian Sodality elected Rollin T. Kearns '59 of Wauwatosa, Wis; the new Debate president is David L. Bynum '59 of Coffeyville, Kansas and Kirkland...