Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...page Report, prepared by a special committee chaired by Oscar Handlin, professor of History, called for a standing committee in order to make available information on the "prospects, opportunities and problems" of the teaching profession...
President Pusey appointed this committee, headed by Oscar Handlin, professor of History, a year ago to investigate "Harvard's responsibilities with regard to the impending shortage of teachers." Its report includes several statistical studies of job expectations of selected members of the Class...
...gossipists as Hedda Hopper find themselves devoting increasing space to TV personalities. When the famed old Cocoanut Grove reopened a fortnight ago, the society columns listed as guests George Gobel, Hugh (Wyatt Earp) O'Brian, Art Linkletter, even Milton Berle. Hollywood's own Bastille Day, the annual Oscar awards, is geared completely as a sponsored TV show; except for those in the running for an Oscar, few movie people bother to attend...
...songs in a lilting, open-throated voice, shaking her tight golden curls. Songs like Ni Toi Ni Moi, which celebrates the fact that love is stronger than anything, have moved Parisian poets and musicians to confer on a Micheyl record the Grand Prix du Bisque, a sort of musical Oscar...
Glinka: A Life for the Tsar (the National Opera of Belgrade, Oscar Danon conducting; London, 4 LPs). In this Communist-approved version of Glinka's 19th-century flag-waver, as in other current versions, attention has been directed away from the young Tsar and focused on the heroic popular leaders of the national uprising against the invading Poles in 1611-13. With that party-line emendation, the opera's melodramatic plot has been preserved intact. Weak in leading roles (Bass Miro Changalovich and Soprano Maria Glavachevich), the present version is thunderously impressive in its choral and ensemble passages...