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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pather Panchali, director Satyijit Ray has recorded certain portions of the life of an Indian family over a ten year period, describing the interaction of the five important characters: the mother and father, a daughter, a young son, and an old sick aunt. Shortly after the beginning of the film, Apu, the son, becomes a central figure, the viewer of the action, the mute commentator. The first we see of him is an eye, which his sister opens with her fingers; and his eye follows the action for the rest of the film, peering over stone walls, looking out from...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: Pather Panchali | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

Munro's new lineup worked out perfectly. Hedreen, of course, was instrumental in the triumph with his scoring and play-making at center. Sweeney gave the varsity the hard-charging inside it needed to team with scrappy John Mudd, and Ekpebu, at his old haunt, left wing, dazzled the Quakers with his dribbling and speed afoot...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Soccer Team Downs Penn, 2-0; Makes Bid for Ivy League Title | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...were two young idealists, helpers in Fidel Castro's drive to power in Cuba, willing to risk prison and death to fight their old comrade-at-arms? See THE HEMISPHERE, No Time for Tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 2, 1959 | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...freshman meet, the Crimson squad also took dead last, tallying 54 points, against 30 for Yale and 36 for Princeton. Eli Bob Mack covered the three and one-tenth mile distance in 15:16 for a new record, breaking the old mark of 15:39 set by Tiger Pete Hoey, who finished second yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Finish Last | 10/31/1959 | See Source »

...Government Grant Application and the Fulbright Travel Grant. For the French Government Grant though I need a study project. Something recondite," he calculated. "The influence of Provence on French symbolist poetry," he decided. "Il pleure dans mon coeur com-me il pleut sur le village," he recalled from an old course in French literature, "but of course it doesn't rain in Provence." Vag remembered he would need a language recommendation for his French fellowship. He thought of M. Plombier, his French A section man. He had gotten a C- in the course, "mais alors, M. Plombier etait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Form of Travel | 10/31/1959 | See Source »

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