Word: oure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Porgy and Bess (Samuel Goldwyn; Columbia). The sound stage burned down. The leading man almost quit. The original director was fired. But Producer Sam Goldwyn kept plugging away at his long-awaited, much-ballyhooed screen version of George Gershwin's durable Broadway musical. By the time the show was...
High Quality Education. Another overworked term-"high quality education" -defies Fels's definition. "I have had to go beyond The College Handbook to find a definition of this most important and yet puzzling phrase . . . Now, at last, the phrase has been defined by the presidents of Amherst, Smith, Mount...
Yet the gains of industrialization-"the base of our social hope"-are still being scorned by Western intellectuals. And the West's pure scientists have been just as "dimwitted" toward its productive engineers: "Their instinct . . . was to take it for granted that applied science was an occupation for second...
The West has little time to wake up, says Snow. "Closing the gap between our cultures is a necessity in the most abstract intellectual sense as well as in the most practical. When those two senses have grown apart, then no society is going to be able to think with...
No more, for Atlantic, the "poetic license" that has given the weather bureau fits for years; not even any female forecasters. "Atlantic is in the service business, and in our service stations the customers deal with men," said Ad Director Dick Borden. "Naturally," he argued, in a massive non sequitur...