Word: janning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recall a part of the Inaugural Address of President Johnson's predecessor, and I can still hear these words as they were spoken that bright, cold afternoon of Jan. 20, 1961: ". . .in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside...
...soldier (Beau Bridges). The Incident thus plausibly proposes the desiccating, depersonalizing pressure of urban life itself as the probable villain. And Director Larry Peerce moves far beyond his 1964 One Potato, Two Potato in welding his cast of adept Hollywood second-string players (among them, Thelma Ritter, Jack Gilford, Jan Sterling and Ruby Dee) into a concerted exposition of this plausibility...
...hand to host the guests, including Art Institute Director Charles Cunningham, whose museum's president backed up his good wishes with a $50,000 donation, was the Contemporary's director, Netherlands-born Jan van der Marck, 38, former director of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center. While studying museum organization and finances on a two-year Rockefeller Foundation grant, Van der Marck realized that the early success of institutions like Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was based on their exhibitions long before they had a chance to build up their permanent collections. Van der Marck intends...
Supertankers for Survival. Net earnings of Swan Hunter are expected to reach $2,800,000 this year, $1,000,000 more than in 1966. By Jan. 1, the firm will merge with three other Tyneside firms to form Swan, Hunter & Tyne Shipbuilders and become one of the few British shipbuilders able to handle the mammoth tankers that are becoming a key to the industry's survival. Two Esso tankers, 240,000 tons each, bigger than any ship ever built in Britain, will go up in their yards. Belfast's Harland & Wolff will build two more, at a price...
Like many of Shakespeare's other comedies, the rickety plot of As You Like It involves a heroine who assumes masculine disguise. According to Polish Critic Jan Kott, much of the ribaldry, irony and ambiguity of this transvestite change is lost on modern audiences, who are accustomed to seeing females in female roles. In the 17th century the roles of women were invariably played by boys...