Word: oscars
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Jerome S. Bruner, associate professor of Social Psychology and Alex Inkeles, Lecturer on Social Relations and Regional Studies, will defend the field against the attacks of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and Oscar Handlin, both associate professors of History. Morton G. White, assistant professor of Philosophy, will moderate...
...last week, the U.S. Government had spoken softly in its fight against Britain's restrictions on dollar oil (TIME, Jan. 2 et seq.). Then it decided the time had come to waggle a big financial stick. ECA's petroleum chief, Oscar Bransky, told a House subcommittee that Britain will get no more ECA dollars for expansion of its own oil refining industry until the fight is settled...
France's Jean Chauvel was perturbed by Broadway's outbursts of pessimisanthro-py, e.g., Death of a Salesman, preferred the gloom of museums to the gloom of theaters and the zephyrs of chamber music to the hurricanes of opera. China's Dr. P. C. Chang thought Oscar Hammerstein's lyrics were delightfully fresh but could not pay the same compliment to the Metropolitan Opera's chorus...
...great many producers 30 or 40 years ago used to invest their own money in their own shows. They all died broke," Composer Richard Rodgers and Librettist Oscar Hammerstein 2d, co-producers of six successive Broadway hits, including South Pacific, wrote in the New York Times. "It is not our intention to die broke if we can help it ... We believe that outside capital can and should be invited into the theater...
Broderick Crawford deserves an Oscar for his portrayal of Willie Stark. Crawford, an ex-grade B gangster-western badman, emerges from the strict typecasting of his former roles to characterize a man whose moral standards change to meet political requirements. Stark begins as a poor farmer, ambitious to improve living conditions for him and his kind in the state. He winds up a miniature Huey Long-type dictator whose main concern for state improvement is vote-getting. But Crawford's fine characterization never overplays the good or the bad to make the moral painful...