Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing in the June issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Alfred Sherwood Romer, Agassiz Professor of Zoology and director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, strongly defended the action of Amherst College's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in admitting a Negro to their society...
Nineteen years ago, in a thundering book called Universities: American, English, German, learned Abraham Flexner, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N J., roundly damned U.S. colleges. With all their "wretched claptrap" of vocationalism, he held, "they resemble the modern drugstore in which the pharmacy has been pushed in the corner by soda fountains." Last week, at 82, Educator Flexner announced a modified opinion: "There must have been changes in educational methods." His reason for thinking so: for two years he had quietly been taking courses in English literature and the fine arts at Columbia...
...Producer Dore Schary before he joined MGM, it combines a neat story by Cornell Woolrich, competent playing by twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll and four relatively unknown actors, and some expert camera work in the brownstone jungles of Manhattan's East Side tenements. Smoothly mortised and joined by Director Ted Tetzlaff and Producer Frederic Ullman Jr., The Window emerges as a fast little thriller full of grade A qualities...
...Director Tetzlaff has cannily short-circuited the improbabilities of the script by documentary-like handling of Bobby's home and environment. Bobby, particularly in his moments of open-mouthed terror, is a reminder that child cinemactors can be used effectively for other things than wringing hearts and tears...
...Were Strangers. Director John Huston's fling at a Cuban revolution; a better-than-average melodrama, but grade B Huston, with John Garfield and Jennifer Jones (TIME...