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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impassive clinch. Sex, violence and nudity are fumetti taboos, partly in concession to a Roman Catholic women's association, which charged in 1951 that the magazines were corrupting Italian youth. Bosoms are thoroughly draped, although now and then a generously endowed film star, like Marisa Allasio, may present problems...
Half the plot is carried forward through asides ("Had I but known this maiden's true station . . ."), and when the stage crew needs time to shift scenery, the present production throws in an irrelevant song. All in all, the revival proves that passable 19th century satire can make for delightful 20th century farce...
...said Gordon, "it would be to make something good." This week Lawyer Gordon, 49, is back from meditation and ready to do just that. His new producing organization, Galaxy Attractions, Inc., is preparing to dramatize Sir Winston Churchill's A History of the English Speaking Peoples on film, present it in a series of hour-long broadcasts with Sir Laurence Olivier as narrator and, for background music, an original score by Sir William Walton. "Sir Winston's history," said Entrepreneur Gordon with all due modesty, "will add stature and dimension to television viewing...
Hechinger, onetime education editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and now associate publisher of the Bridgeport Sunday Herald, traces the history and analyzes the present state of U.S. and Soviet schools in a manner that might unsettle educationists of either nation. Particularly fascinating is the author's account of the rise, and the abrupt, inglorious fall of progressive education in the U.S.S.R. When the Bolsheviks took over in 1917, Hechinger reports, they inherited a system of schools, serving only the children of the upper classes, that was as good as any other in Europe. But in a period...
Opportunity to Flunk. Hechinger's carefully drawn comparison between the present U.S. and Soviet school systems shows flaws in each. For all Russia's talk of mass education. Soviet schools-at least the sort to which visiting educators are taken-are planned for an elite class of students. In recent years only about 12% of Soviet students have graduated from the nation's ten-year (college prep) schools. And when Premier Khrushchev's learning-and-labor edict (TIME, Jan. 5) takes effect, the proportion probably will drop. In the U.S. 55% of the children who begin...