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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Random House Dictionary of the English Language...
BLOWUP. For his first English-language film, Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni develops a closeup of a young, successful pop photographer who accidentally records a murder while snapping candids around London. Though all the elements for an ingenious thriller are at hand, Antonioni underplays the whodunit and focuses instead on his characteristic concern: the gap between seeing and feeling...
...Little attracted by sports until he went off to Stanford, Gardner took up swimming and broke several Pacific Coast free-style records. An English major, he dropped out for a year to try his hand at short-story writing, then returned to Stanford and switched to psychology. Before he garnered his degree he garnered a wife, a petite, dark-eyed Guatemalan girl named Aida Marroquin. When they first met, she knew practically no English and he could say nothing in Spanish but the Gettysburg Address, which he had learned in a class. They corresponded for two years while...
...arts. A contemporary English diarist, John Evelyn, noted that Bernini once "gave a public opera wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy and built the theater...
...that has changed. Now the nation's fourth largest Roman Catholic university,* Jesuit-run Fordham has a healthy sprinkling of non-Catholics among its 6,997 full-time students. Strong in English, French, philosophy and the classics, Fordham now trails only Notre Dame in overall quality among Catholic schools, and is rapidly trying to catch up. Faculty salaries have been upgraded-the average pay of full professors, $13,543 in 1965, will reach $22,500 in three years-and the school is on the hunt for academic stars with the stature of Communications Pundit Marshall McLuhan, who will join...