Word: joel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campus. California does its best to break up, and to personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A., one professor of history props up a seating chart of his 150 students next to his shaving mirror until he commits it to memory. But the university recognizes its limitations. Says popular Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand: "The big institution must be content to be a place of opportunity rather than a place of compulsion. It is no place for a student of unformed character and uncertain purpose. [But] the presence of the mob need not seriously interfere with the education of the gifted...
...lined "ABC", the authors of "Colloquy on Robert Lowell," are actually Joel Dorius, Robert E. Garis, and S. F. Johnson, three teaching fellows in English, who discuss the Pulitzer Poet with lively dialectical ease. Andrew Eklund's "Forster and the Marabar Caves" is an exceptionally clear exposition of both Forster's development and Eklund's own response. You may wish to disagree with Eklund's contention that an artist's work may be examined for a "particular point of view, without attempting to equate the examination with any literary or artistic judgment," but Eklund consistently presents his argument, concerned more...
Ramrod (United Artists) is a pretty, mildly sluggish western about a very bad woman (Veronica Lake), a very good one (Arleen Whelan), a good man (Joel McCrea) and a rat (Preston Foster). The main problems: 1) Will Miss Lake prevail against her father (Charles Ruggles), Foster and his hard guys, in her determination to graze her cattle on land they forbid her? and 2) Which girl will ultimately throw and brand McCrea...
...survey, set up by last year's pact between Secretary of Interior Julius A. Krug and the miners' John L. Lewis, had been politically inspired. But there could be no doubt of its professional impartiality. The investigators, headed by Rear Admiral Joel T. Boone, blamed both the mine owners and the United Mine Workers for the fact that a large part of the nation's mining population, "bypassed" by progress, "has benefited little by improved standards of housing and health." Some findings...
Last week Hooperatings got a full blast from Joel Murcott, radio editor of the Hollywood Reporter. Wrote Murcott...