Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director, Helmut Kautner, can speak through the visual medium many times more subtly than through the verbal. He records scenes that express the whole depth of the film in a few seconds. And old woman offers the boots of her dead grandson to Helga, thinking she has deserted the Germans of her own will, and Kautner elicits a dramatic poignancy that is almost unbearable. In just the last few frames of one sequence a kitten appears to follow Helga out of the room, and by his cinematic control the director turns the kitten into a pure manifesation of the faltering...
Gallery of Horrors. In startling contrast to the sweetness of Tintin are the cartoons in the Paris weekly L'Express by Sine (real name: Maurice Sinet), 29, France's highest-paid freelance artist (posters, stage sets, animated ads). Sine's more innocent drawings include murders -a wife eating her husband's brains after dicing his skull like a melon. His really mordant streak is reserved for legless cripples who leave their carts outside Moslem temples beside the shoes of other visitors and boy scouts who thumb rides from Christ as he walks with his cross...
Little Rock will choose a new school board Dec. 6. Wrote the resigning members pointedly: "This election will give the voters . . . their first opportunity to express a clear-cut choice as to whether we have public schools in Little Rock or not . . . We deplore the interruption or termination of the education of so many of Little Rock's children .. . Somewhere in their consideration of the matters involved, all citizens of this community must remember that this responsibility begins with them...
...journalism school graduate, had had enough English and writing courses to get a license after taking three education courses at Teachers College, Columbia University. At Columbia, wrote Allen, he was told that the way to deal with problem students was to "find meaningful situations in which your pupils can express their felt needs." He adds: "This phrase seemed funny to me then, but it seems tragic...
...choose a reasonably favorable part of the earth to land on. Except for trying to hit Kansas instead of Antarctica, the crew should be able to leave everything else to automatic devicing. "About all that is expected of them." said Stanley, "is that they return to earth alive and express with eloquence their reactions to space flight...