Word: hards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Able, hard-working James Herbert Case Jr., Wall Streeter turned educator, left the presidency of Washington and Jefferson College nine years ago to take over a lively problem school: tiny (295 students) Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Bard was broke; a onetime experimental affiliate of Columbia University, it was left with more teachers than it could adequately pay. Case moved in with a sure hand. His 47 teachers have seen their paychecks increase an average of 60%. A full professor who used to get $6,000 yearly can now expect...
Anne Bancroft, as Annie Sullivan, comes onstage in her drab grey traveling suit and black, high-laced shoes. The stiff back, the solemn, measured steps are at once determined and shy. It is the hard-jawed fighter who meets her charge for the first time and all but devours the child with her eyes. It is the troubled stranger, caught suddenly between youthful belligerence and a growing awareness of responsibility, who catches a doll full in the mouth, spits a broken tooth into her cupped palm, agonizes over a job she may not be able to handle...
...achieve such precise stagecraft, Actress Bancroft worked hard with a variety of teachers, still submits to the rigorous and introspective training of the Actors' Studio. What sets Anne apart from other Method actors is the stubborn perseverance with which she has kept her quick and sensitive emotions unfettered by theory and cant. "I've never liked to read," says she. "But I don't cover up my ignorance ; if I admit it, people will teach me. On the third TV show I ever did, Rod Steiger told me about Stanislavsky. I said...
...obviously the wrong type for a goldfish. When he saw the one in the tank, his eyebrows waggled excitedly, and he bet more than half the board-and won. In terror the goldfish hid in the toy castle at the bottom of the tank, and no matter how hard the attendant rapped on the castle with his net, the fish would not come...
CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT, hard hit by defense cutbacks, will become a major maker of mobile housing units. It bought two house-trailer manufacturers, General Coach Works, ABC Coach Co., and will add a third, Mid-States Corp. Three firms' combined 1959 sales: $60 million...