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...movies as "pictures of people talking." But he considers his own films "pure cinema," meaning storytelling through montage, the art of putting shots together to convey an idea to his audience. Hitchcock emphasizes this visual concept of film-making whenever he discusses his own films, and in seeing his fiftieth, Torn Curtain, it would be wise to take the hint...
...notebook. The fact remains that if Alfred Hitchcock filmed the telephone book, anyone seriously interested in film would have to see it. If the total impression of Torn Curtain is disappointing, it is still one of the most fascinating American films in recent years. Anyway, it's Hitchcock's fiftieth film. Which makes it an event of some importance no matter how you look...
Plugging Them In. Some companies have discovered that time sharing has reduced to one-fiftieth the time needed to answer a problem, have found access to a large computer more profitable than ownership of a small or medium-sized machine. The Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, one of the pioneers in time sharing, now has 400 users for its IBM 7094 computer, has served scientists as far away as Nor way and Argentina. Experts predict that by 1970 time sharing will account for at least half of an estimated $5 billion computer business, will be used as widely and easily...
Conant, who is attending his fiftieth class reunion, will be the Orator at the Literary Exercises of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre at 11 a.m. The Poet will be Theodore Morison '23, professor of English; Ralph N. Helverson, minister of the First Church Unitarian, Cambridge, will be the Chaplain...
Forgetting the tradition that an August occasion is an empty occasion, President Bunting and President Pusey said some intelligent things about Phi Beta Kappa a week ago at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Radcliffe chapter...