Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STOLEN KISSES. This exhilarating film by François Truffaut catches the glow of its director's warm humor and characteristically gentle insights into the benign folly and innocence of adolescence...
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Larry Peerce is a director with a lamentable sense of style and a laudable way with actors. Although his version of Philip Roth's 1959 novella of young love in suburbia is full of visual vulgarities, Richard Benjamin and stunning Newcomer Ali MacGraw save the show with their finely shaded performances...
...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY might have been just another kidnapping movie, but Director Hubert Cornfield has a sure and shrewd eye that transforms an ordinary story into a surreal seminar in the poetics of psychological terror. The small cast is uniformly excellent, and Marlon Brando does his best work in years as a slangy hipster-criminal...
...Kennedy-Wiesner-Chayes report brought an immediate reply from John Foster Jr., the Pentagon's Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Another response came in the form of a 60-page monograph published by a subcommittee of the conservative American Security Council. The A.S.C. subcommittee included not one but two Nobel laureates, Chemist Willard Libby and Physicist Eugene Wigner, an assortment of prominent academics, retired generals and admirals, and Edward Teller, one of the world's most eminent weapons physicists...
...Committee also announced the Overseers' election of Mrs. Carl J. Gilbert, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Radcliffe, to the Committee and the appointment of Carl Kaysen, director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, as a consultant. Kaysen was formerly a professor of Economics at Harvard and an assistant to President Kennedy for national security affairs...