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...than any other sociologist," another professor believes. Comments upon his "disciples" rum from extreme comparisons to Marx's protagonists to hesitant admissions that "there is some element of religion in his followers." Once in a graduate school seminar at which Parsons was not present, a student critized a facet of his theorizing. An indignant student, so the story goes, rose to the occasion and stood for half an hour passionately explaining how everything really did fit together...
...Gramercy Park, owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney ('22), Painter George Bellows has caught with bold brush strokes a golden instant of a summer day, quickened for today's viewers by nostalgia for that quieter age. Everett Shinn, one of the original Ash Can Eight, recorded another facet of the feather boa era in Trapeze, owned by Wall Streeter Arthur Goodhart Altschul ('43). A painter who often exclaimed, "Lord, I love the theater," Shinn depicted the flashing figures onstage at Manhattan's Winter Garden Theater. Shinn, with an old vaudeville fan's admiration...
...toward pre-Columbian primitives, had a tough going-over before he initially appeared on CBS's The $64,000 Question. Like any other promising candidate, he was thoroughly screened. The Question likes candidates to be "attractive TV characters" (i.e., "characters" without being too odd), to display a paradoxical facet of personality (e.g., a cop who likes Shakespeare or a Southerner who digs Lincoln), and to demonstrate a certain expertise in a chosen field of knowledge. For two hours a day on four consecutive days, Bill Pearson got the treatment: he was rigorously questioned by three men while a fourth...
Headed by John Nicholas Brown '22 of Providence, the committee spent over a year in drawing up the report which investigated almost every facet of the visual arts at Harvard. Financed partly by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the group visited some 58 schools and colleges, and spoke to over a hundred experts in the field...
...heart attack last July. To the 1,510 Texans at a Democratic fund-raising dinner in the Whitney high school gymnasium, the most absorbing word from Johnson was his call for unity and loyalty among Texas Democrats, who switched to Dwight Eisenhower by the thousands in 1952. But another facet of the Senate majority leader's speech alerted politicians in Washington and all over the U.S. Serving notice to Democrats and Republicans that he intends to be the key man on Capitol Hill next year, Lyndon Johnson outlined a 13-point legislative program carefully worded to stay...