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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gardner and Frank Sinatra dealt with the "gentlemen of the press!" It happened in Australia, but it should happen here-and more often. It is heartening then to see two people such as Ava and Frankie stand up to the arrogant reporters and photographers. When they tell them off, these two of my favorite people are, I am sure, speaking for millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...children in the play lend some disturbing elements--they were often self-consciously cute and occasionally betrayed sophisticated accents which grated against the rural informality of the play. But otherwise, from the alcoholic organist to the milkman, there was little that seemed out of the Grovers Corners "ordinary...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Our Town | 5/8/1959 | See Source »

Most students, however, emphasized, and listed among them: "time wasted traveling," "out of touch with classmates," "trouble finding parking places," "lack of close association with students of different backgrounds," "daily contact with family often cumbersome," "sense of isolation," "lack of intellectual atmosphere," "feeling as though I were still attending high school," "nearly zero contact with the faculty," and "inability to make full use of Lamont...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Still Needed: 'Real House' for Non-Residents | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

Kopit has an unusual talent for working hard and getting things done. One suspects he must write swiftly because one reads him swiftly. One imagines he spends his time thinking out what he will write, because he avoids the confusion and inconsistency that often infect work by young writers...

Author: By Gavin Scott, | Title: The Advocate | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

...typical example of the provincialism which so often characterizes Senate conservatives, it is a depressing case of their inability to adapt themselves to the year 1959. American-made equipment for teaching science has long been almost unbelievably expensive. Schools which are neither rich, nor equipped with ingenious teachers who can hand-build teaching equipment, are frequently forced by the costs to curtail some of their science teaching, or to do it with inadequate demonstrations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Senate and the Schools | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

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