Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Room at the Top (Romulus; Continental), a film version of the bestselling novel by Britain's John Braine (TIME, May 27, 1957), is a powerful, disturbing piece of cinema realism. On the face of it. the film is a social satire: a hilarious lampoon of British provincial society, an...
Of all the wartime careers of Faculty members, that of Samuel Eliot Morison '08, now Jonathan Trumbull Professor of History, Emeritus, stands out. His work as naval historian of the war earned him the inevitable comparison with Thucydides--and he richly deserves it. It was not long after Pearl Harbor...
Ford remembers Guderian as a loyal man, one who had no part in the famous July 20 plot to kill Der Fuehrer, and in talking to him, he was able to obtain much of the information needed to recreate that plot. Asking questions as historians, Ford and his colleagues learned...
Command Pilot Stevenson B. Canyon (Dean Fredericks) climbed aloft in his F-102 to examine the flying derelict, and Canyon's first sight of the frozen, frost-covered pilots, still strapped in their seats, added up to terrifying snapshots of disaster. After that, Canyon's shooting the B...
Collision Course, by Alvin Moscow, about the Andrea Doria disaster, and Tomorrow Never Came, by Max Caulfield, about the torpedoing of the British liner Athenia, are memorable accounts of nights to remember.