Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quality smacks of better-than-average home movies. The producers have dramatized little of Schweitzer's eventful life, keeping the tenor of the story subdued throughout, almost underplaying their material. They review Schweitzer's early life in and around Gunsbach, in Alsace: the parsonage where he was born and grew up, his first schoolroom, and the quiet countryside he came to love as a boy all pass before the camera as expected. The audience moves leisurely along with the film to the time when, at thirty, Schweitzer made his decision to study medicine and travel to Africa as a missionary...
Like too many documentaries, this one would be monotonous if it did not convey a charm which the audience feels increasingly as the picture progresses. Gunsbach looks as friendly and quaint as the post-cards of Spring in Alsace, but Schweitzer's narration tells how he grew up in the village, and this village lives for the audience. Sensitive shots of Lambarene's patients: a tired woman nursing a tired baby; a disarmingly attractive child with leprosy; men scratching their bottoms because they itch; all add to the charm...
...Second War further impaired the tutorial system, and in the post-war years undergraduate dissatisfaction grew as the plan became more impotent. Then the "Bender Report" resulted in a decentralized Dean's Office (the Allston Burr Senior Tutors) and the concept of group tutorial. As an alternative to the expensive system of individual tutorial, group sessions were perhaps the best solution which could be expected. Certainly they are better than no tutorial...
...Carroll grew up it seems in a little mining town in Pennsylvania, and after high school (she could never get in the school play) moved to Florida, where she tried night club dancing. Then she went alone to New York, where she was a flop on TV and tried out for a little group called Actor's Studio. She got parts in two Broadway plays as a result, and Elia Kazan happened by one day and screen-tested...
...Arcy stated that Existentialism grew up as a revolt against Renaissance rationalism, which gave a steadily diminishing importance to the self. Kierkegaard experienced "a deep sense of loneliness, isolation and absence of purpose" so characteristic of Existentialism...