Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawrence has always been co-educational, though in the Victorian era there were constant dicta forbidding pleasantries between the sexes. One elderly former co-ed remembers the rule banning any Lawrentian gentleman walking with a Lawrentian young lady without a chaperon. The one exception was during a rainstorm in which event the young man could offer to share his umbrella with the girl. "We used to call them our rainbeaus," the lady smiles...
...Golden Section. Another tremendous problem introduced by CinemaScope is the question of composition-filling the frame with a satisfying picture. Western art since the time of Pythagoras has sanctioned the esthetic mystery of "the Golden Section." Applied to a rectangle, the rule evolves a geometrical figure about five by three, or 1.61 to 1-almost exactly the proportion of the Paramount wide screen...
Zanuck may argue, in his own defense, that great artists have frequently defied the rule; after all, Michelangelo was said to favor a figure "pyramidal, serpentine, and multiplied by one, two, and three," which is at least as peculiar as 2.66 to 1. Yet only by a master stroke of organization was Leonardo da Vinci able, in The Annunciation, to connect in one esthetic whole a frame that is only slightly more extreme than Zanuck's. But Zanuck of course has a bigger budget. One moviemaker summed up the problem this way: "Marilyn Monroe will have to lie down...
...understandably surprised at the letter that came in from Daingerfield, Texas. Said the letter: "I am so impressed with this single copy that I would like to receive the publication for a 13-week trial. My check for $1 is enclosed ... It has long been [my] inviolate rule ... to refuse to subscribe to any magazine . . . unless the editor can and will sign and return to me the pledge appearing below...
...seen. At last the horrified mother superior summoned them and demanded an explanation. "We are searching for our future home," replied Sister Marie Aline serenely. "But it is not up to us to decide exactly where we should settle. Jesus will let us know." She explained that the principal rule of their order, inspired by the French priest Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916) is simply "Live and work among the humble...