Word: leightons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then there was the problem of casting. Rattigan's writing, clever as it was, seemed to Broadway audiences no more than piquant sauce at a histrionic banquet for two of the theater's most exquisitely mannered scenery chewers: Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman, who played all four of the show's principal parts (TIME, Nov. 5, 1956). Obviously, the movie people could not hope to match that, so they set out to do better-by providing their picture with one of the screen's most gifted young directors, Delbert (Bachelor Party) Mann, and with what...
Discussion on the non-Honors sections of the CEP report was abandoned early in the Faculty meetings on it, as Delmar Leighton, Master of Dudley observed last week, "not for lack of discussion, but for lack of agreement on an acceptable solution...
...Honors students want a tutorial program, Leighton said, "and I have a strong suspicion that many are happy under present condition." He stated, however, that a voluntary, flexible program would provide important benefits...
Last Spring the Committee on Educational Policy gave "a mandate to the Masters" to develop non-Honors tutorial in the Houses, Leighton continued. "The Masters have been led to believe that, if they could decide what kind of teaching help they want, the College will provide the teachers...
...Leighton emphasized the importance of getting a "significant" non-Honors program in operation. "It is a dangerous jump to take," he maintained, "to assume that all students who haven't qualified for Honors by the end of the Sophomore year, or don't choose to meet the specialized requirements for Honors, have lost their right to an important form of individual attention from the Faculty...