Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abandoned mansion in Rutherford, N.J., the young facultyman from Columbia University fell to musing. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," said he, "to turn that place into a college?" Eventually, Peter Sammartino did just that, but the institution he founded was far from orthodox. Now known as Fairleigh Dickinson University, it is one man's aggressive but imaginative answer to the increasing demand for higher education...
...poets he has chosen range from Auden and Emily Dickinson through John Quincy Adams to Shakespeare, whose Epilogue to The Tempest provides a sol emn Prayer Response: My ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself and frees all faults...
...think my trouble is that I read too much Thomas Wolfe too young"). His show is conceived as a TV illustration of Alexander Pope's line: "The proper study of mankind is man." The shows he is proudest of: an evocation of the love poems of Emily Dickinson, a ripsnorting Moby Dick, a song-and-dance recreation of The Ballad of John Brown. Camera Three is so far above the class of most commercial evening shows that with only a fraction of the money squandered on some of them it could probably outclass itself...
...final sequence is the most frankly chauvinistic and the least convincing: hard-bitten Arieh Lavi captures a wounded Egyptian soldier whom he then discovers to be an ex-Nazi officer. Except for this flawed sequence, Britain's Director Thorold (Angel Street) Dickinson has imaginatively caught the almost tribal ferocity of a small...
Calhoun scored its points in the third period when Bill Dickinson went over from the three. Calhoun passed for the extra point...