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...fund-raising committee of outside supporters of the DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research has begun to organize a drive to raise a $6.9 million endowment for the institute, Preston N. Williams, acting director of the institute, said yesterday...
...Paul Robeson, like Walter Leonard, was a person seeking to transform the American democracy so all persons can have equal rights and privileges," Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change at the Divinity School, said yesterday...
...Preston Allison, a Henderson, Texas, accountant, wanted the Carters and the Mondales to "devote one Sun day afternoon to calling people all over the country" for a three-minute chat...
Sullivan's Travels (Preston Sturges...
...Lady Eve. What Rules of the Game did for French comedy, the films of Preston Sturges did for American comedies of the 1930s and 40s. Though he is an explicitly non-political director Sturges's comedies constantly explode the key assumptions of American ideology. To explore their internal contradictions, they use absurd resolutions to undercut both their standard form and premises. He thus stands in direct contrast with Hollywood comedy directors, especially Frank Capra, whose work always ended up uncritically reaffirming the nostrums of American ideology. Though Sturges's other films, such as The Great McGinty, The Palm Beach Story...