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...movie opens with the arrival of a new teacher at a small village school. He finds that the retired teacher, a strict disciplinarian, has managed to stifle any student interest in studies. Mr. Pascal, the new man, soon succeeds in making the students interested in their work...
...still are a few. * Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus, Lucretius, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Virgil, Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rabelais, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey, Cervantes, Francis Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Milton, Pascal, Newton, Huygens, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Swift, Sterne, Fielding, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Gibbon, Kant, The Federalist (by Hamilton, Madison and Jay), J. S. Mill, Boswell, Lavoisier, Fourier, Faraday, Hegel, Goethe, Melville, Darwin, Marx, Engels, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, William James, Freud. Most controversial omissions: Luther, Calvin, Moliere, Voltaire, Dickens, Balzac, Einstein...
Beethoven: Quartets Op. 131 and Op. 59, Nos. 1, 2 and, 3 (the Pascal String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides LP). Distinguished performances of one of the great "last" quartets and of the three "Rasoumovsky" quartets from Beethoven's middle years. The Paganini Quartet, playing with a more refined tone, offers an equally distinguished performance of the superb Quartet Op. 132 (Victor, 2 sides LP). Recordings: good...
...ancient Rome the Vestal Virgins were six daughters of patrician families who were appointed at the age of six to ten to keep a flame constantly burning in the temple of Vesta, Rome's goddess of the hearth. Twenty centuries later, when Producer Gabriel Pascal got around to casting six Vestal Virgins for RKO's Androcles and the Lion (TIME, Oct. 15), no less than 2,200 hopefuls from Hollywood's horde of extras felt eminently qualified for the parts. One literal-minded applicant enclosed a medical affidavit certifying her eligibility, but many felt that photographs...
G.B.S. might have been startled at some of Producer Pascal's casting: Television Comic Alan Young as Androcles and a professional football player and wrestler named Woody Strode as the lion. But Shaw would undoubtedly have been delighted with the painted backdrop for the Colosseum scenes. Two seats away from a beaming likeness of Pascal is a portrait of (George) Bernard Shaw himself...