Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These three masters, quite understandably, form the backbone of this handsome show, but their younger colleagues and epigoni contribute a number of exciting works themselves. Perhaps the most well-known of the new buildings, Edward Stone's vibrant New Delhi Embassy, deserves top honors for its succinct and artistic suggestion of the filigree of India's most well-known monument, the Taj Mahal. A surprise in this exhibition is provided by the exciting and imaginative project of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill for the Banque Lambert in Brussels. So ingenious is its form of detail and so striking its balancing...
...Miracle Worker is reminiscent of another play about a famous recovery from handicap, Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello. Both have the advantage of a ready-made, well-known story, of ready-made audience sympathy. But Gibson's task is a far more demanding one: while Schary could work with the breezy personality of the adult F.D.R., Gibson has as his heroine a six-year-old girl who cannot speak a word. There is, of course, the wonderful Annie, beautifully played by Miss Bancroft, but Helen remains the central figure, an unusual and tremendously difficult character...
...many students want," Wilcox explained, "is to be known as an advanced standing sophomore." He claimed that the five or ten students who have expressed intention of refusing to become sophomores represent one of the greatest advances in undergraduate attitude toward the program since it was started...
Hurricane Gracie permitting, the varsity soccer team will open its season against Tufts this afternoon at 3 p.m. in Medford. The game must be rated a tossup, since little is known about either team at this early stage of the campaign...
...number of highly influential faculty members have expressed their definite interest in meeting to discuss the issue before the next meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which is scheduled for Oct. 20. It is not known whether the Committee on Educational Policy or the Committee of Deans will debate the matter before the Faculty meets...