Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arts Committee, headed by John Nicholas Brown, had recommended the establishment of a division of the Visual Arts and of a Department of Design. A CEP subcommittee, however, decided that the proposed division would only create administrative confusion and that a Department of Design was too much like a "pre-professional art school." The CEP has in effect adopted its subcommittee's modifications, and it is on these that the Faculty will be voting...
...cardinal's words had extra political weight because under Russian persecution, even more than under foreign partition, the church was a symbol of freedom. The story is told of a man in church during the bitter pre-Gomulka days who remained standing during Mass. His neighbors tugged at his sleeve, but he stubbornly refused to kneel. "I'm an atheist," he explained. "Then why do you come to Mass?" they asked. "Because," he said, "I'm against the government...
...well as stars, writers, directors-even relatives. It also softened them up for the production deals that give top creative talent between 50% and 75% of a movie's profits. The ill wind has so far blown a windfall of $150 million to the studios for letting their pre-1948 movies go on the air. Except for Paramount, every major studio is also making TV films in earnest. Movie bigwigs curled their lips when such onetime movie performers as Betty Furness, William Lundigan, Lee Bowman and Ronald Reagan emerged as full-time TV commercial pluggers, but now virtually...
...Moon for the Misbegotten was Eugene O'Neill's last play. Finished in 1943, it had a turbulent pre-Broadway road tour in 1947 and closed out of town. Whatever production difficulties it encountered, A Moon has internal troubles that go much deeper. In the current production, three accomplished actors cannot save, or even for long sustain, the play. Nor is the general effect one of crude mass: it is much more one of sheer dead weight. O'Neill's greatest fault-using too many and too flaccid words-flattens out a story that...
GERMAN BANK TRUSTS, splintered into 30 postwar regional units by Allied decartelizers, are rapidly consolidating, with two biggest pre-1947 trusts leading way. Successors to Deutsche Bank Group (assets: $1.8 billion) have voted to unite, and successors to Dresdner Bank-Group (assets: $1.2 billion) will vote to combine this month...