Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Citizen Kane" was Orson Welles' baby. He was the first person ever commissioned by a studio to write, direct, produce and star in a single film, and the result of his multiple activity became a movie classic...
...educational practices" the bill lists: denial of admission through the quota system; written or oral inquiries concerning the applicant's race, religion, color or national origin. Under the measure a commission would be set up to investigate all discriminatory practices in schools and colleges; after complaint by an aggrieved person, or when the Commission Chairman "has reason to believe that there is discrimination," the body could begin its investigation. If discrimination were discovered, the Superior Court would then have the power to issue cease and desist orders...
...attempts to deal only with four of his marriages, throwing in a few lines here and there just to show that the king was interested in matters outside the field of sex. Some years ago a British writer observed that the great Tudor had become completely identified with the person of Charles Laughton in the mind of the typical schoolboy. His performance in this 1933 film is classic; whether historically accurate or not, the picture of Henry VIII in the mind of the average man today is Laughton's creation. In the same way, the history of Henry's last...
...surprised," De Gaulle said, "that none of you ask me about Marshal Petain. Let me talk to you about him ... It was necessary to condemn him, because his person symbolized capitulation . . . But today there only remains an old man in a fortress who once rendered great services to France. Is he to be allowed to die without again seeing a tree, a flower, or a friend?" Petain, De Gaulle thought, should be the first to be released...
...timely subject matter adds interest rather than importance to the play. The Traitor has its serious side: there is some intelligent discussion, and even, in the person of Walter Hampden, a probing professor of philosophy. But as it proceeds, the play becomes more & more a stock thriller, until the tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument...