Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Composer Leon Kirchner will become the next Walter Bigelow Professor of Music on January 1. He succeeds Randall Thompson '20, who retired from teaching this summer...
...reason that life isn't all roses is that South Africa has an oppressive racial policy-a bit of news that seems to have hit Co-Playwrights Howard DaSilva and Felix Leon with tardy impact. Inevitably, the odd interracial couple has a run-in with the local Nazi Afrikaner corps, blond and stolid beasts who are decently venal enough to be bought off. Dore Schary, the old Message Pilot of MGM, has directed The Zulu and the Zayda in a spirit of brotherhood that pretty effectively squelches any possible dramatic conflict...
...tons of excess aluminum from the Government's huge stockpile, hoping to pressure the companies by weakening prices (yet denying any such aim). As the Aluminum Co. of America joined the price rise, the Government raised that total to 200,000. Then Alcoa Executive Vice President Leon Hickman, chief negotiator for the industry, vowed that the aluminum producers would stick by their price boosts. Furious at this open defiance, the Texas White House issued further orders to up the ante...
...Palace. But what Moscow cinema fans found really new and startling at last week's premiere of Salvo of the Aurora were a couple of the bit players. For in Salvo, after nearly 40 years as an "unperson"-that ideological limbo to which the Soviets assign their villains-Leon Trotsky had returned to the Soviet scene. Also portrayed for the first time in film since his death twelve years ago was Joseph Stalin...
Finally, the appeal of the film is purely visual, a feast of costumes, color and cinquecento opulence as beautiful to contemplate as any masterpiece in facsimile. Though the drama up front often makes the mind boggle, Photography Director Leon Shamroy and a staff of design wizards have dwarfed it against backgrounds that fill the eye with Michelangelo's incomparable vision...