Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAST November Frederick Mosteller and his seven-man committee issued a modest proposal to fill a hole in undergraduate instruction, revitalizing house education at the same time. Each house should get a typewriter-sized computer console, Mosteller's committee recommended. It would be available from 8 to 12, seven nights a week, and students could dash downstairs to use the computer for physics problems or for homework in the new computer courses made possible by the new machinery...
...after a century of obscurity. American 19th century painting, from the works of such frontier reporters as George Caleb Bingham, whose pictures today bring as high as $250,000, to the early 20th century cityscapes of the Ashcan School, is enjoying a remarkable revival. A Hudson River landscape by Frederick Church that sold for $3,500 in the 1950s went last year for $40,000; a canvas by Thomas Eakins or Winslow Homer can bring...
...whatever formula the inexorable attack on long-neglected urban problems comes, the cost will be staggering. Alcoa Chairman Frederick J. Close last week ventured a price tag of $100 billion to clean U.S. skies and rivers, rebuild cities, unsnarl traffic, educate the young and re-educate the old. Vice Chairman Simon Ramo of TRW Inc. puts the cost ten times higher, or $1 trillion...
...strongest parts, though not the largest, belong to Frederick Banks as Marcel, the procuring and philandering valet, and Phillipa Lord, the Countess. Banks is appropriately nasty and Miss Lord appropriately aristocratic, each without lapses...
...Frederick Ewers' set achieves a nice delineation of the kitchen "cavern" below and the town house above, though the upper story is a bit cramped and leads to some rather static scenes. --LEE H. SIMOWITZ