Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denmark-"The emphasis is on vaudeville acts. One of the best had a man in an upper berth peering at a girl in a lower as she got ready for bed. They have lots of creative imagination over there. Danish girls are a cross between the English and French, but they're prettier than either." ¶England-"The girls just aren't very sexy. The shows are all in private clubs, and they're uninhibited. But the girls have little expression, and they don't move too well." ¶France-"A Parisian girl can be sexy...
...state's compulsory school-attendance law. Fortnight ago the case came up before Municipal Judge Searle Sandeen of Stillwater, who listened to four University of Minnesota scholars testify that Tommy's studies do indeed meet the legal requirements of private-school instruction and should be so recognized. English Professor Huntington Brown called Tommy's curriculum "a respectable, oldfashioned, academic program," said he would prefer it to the public schools' for his own children. History Professor David Noble called Tommy's knowledge of history "unique, especially in view of the lack of history teaching in public...
...five promotions on the Harvard Faculty, and their new positions, are: Gerald Holton, professor of Physics and of General Education; Max Krook, professor of Applied Mathematics and Astrophysics; Hideo Sasaki, professor of Landscape Architecture in the Graduate School of Design; William Alfred, associate professor of English; John Preston Miller, associate professor of Geology...
Alfred, who teaches the General Education course "Crisis and the Individual," is a specialist in medieval English. Also a poet and playwrght, his verse tragedy "Hogan's Goat" will be published soon...
Room at the Top (at the Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Alec Guinness and Jack Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest and most adult dialogue ever to come across the screen. As an aging mistress, Simone Signoret gives a devastating performance that justifiably won the Cannes Festival's award for the "best performance by an actress." Named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...