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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much of the realistic force of the film is derived from the story's phsical setting. Dassin has drawn on the Greek town and its people, utilizing the inherent despair of Greek folk-songs to express the despair of the characters, the material poverty of the citizens to underline their poverty of hope. Dassin has also exploited the aged and hardened faces of his Greek extras by using their expresisons to punctuate his dialogue...
...committee to study the NDEA loyalty oath will probably report back to the Council on Monday, Lewis B. Oliver, Jr. '61, chairman of the committee, said last night. Although the group has already decided what its stand on the issue will be, Oliver said he felt it "inadvisable" to express any opinion before Monday...
With Italian-American relations solid and satisfactory, Premier Segni actually had no great and pressing problems to hash over with President Eisenhower (the talks, said the communique, were held "in a spirit of close friendship"); he got a chance before the National Press Club to express his hope that Italy would play a role in a future summit meeting, and to warn the U.S. against reckless disarmament merely because of Khrushchev's "handshake and a few smiles...
...thought the cover story came out very well. As far as I am concerned, it was all too complimentary, and as far as my views are concerned, accurate, which is the main point. May I congratulate you on the result and express my own personal appreciation...
...latest gift of famed, splenetic British Publisher Beaverbrook (Daily Express, Evening Standard) to his boyhood province is an expertly lighted, $1,000,000 museum of glazed bricks, white limestone and greyish-white marble. The building is divided into a recessed showroom where the picture-windowed north wall frames the placid river flowing below, a long and large gallery at either end, and a basement that converts easily from exhibition halls into lecture rooms. To cut the glare from artificial lights, all walls are faced with a light beige fabric; grey and brown terrazzo floors are offset by stairways trimmed...