Word: directors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bestseller by Glendon Swarthout, is a big, flashy, $4,000,000 Gary Cooper western. Its primary purpose is to grab the top dollar in the November movie market, but incidentally it tries to "put [its] hand," as the script proclaims, "on the bare heart of heroism." Director Robert Rossen, who wrote the script with Ivan Moffat, never gets quite that close to the mystery of courage. But he does examine the nature and conduct of a hero at considerable depth, and he finds in his moral conflicts a stronger motivation for the usual violent action, which in this film...
...another "in the raw." Begun five years ago with a Ford Foundation grant, the Casbah (grants to date: $10.3 million) was built near Stanford University because scholars liked the isolation and their wives liked the weather. Already 233 fellows have passed through, representing 52 institutions and eleven foreign countries. Director Ralph Tyler, onetime dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago, has no trouble recruiting. His fat waiting list now includes 5,000 nominees...
Three-Level Chess. Credit for the installation goes to Guggenheim Museum Director James Johnson Sweeney, who discovered that laying out pictures in a spiral museum is like playing three-dimensional chess at a distance of 80 ft. (the inner diameter of the core). Pointing and counterpointing pictures on three different levels at once, Sweeney was able to orchestrate modern art in a way that no horizontal museum can hope...
...Magician (Swedish). The latest witch's brew-mesmerism, symbolism and sex-concocted by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, one of the most intriguing moviemakers now at work...
...worked out a merger with the much larger Guaranty Trust Co., became the head of the fifth largest U.S. bank.-Overnight his bank's capital funds jumped from $89 million to $512 million. Now Alexander is expanding his business and, as an adviser to the U.S.Treasury and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, is considered a spokesman for bankers on U.S. fiscal policy...