Word: search
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Older citizens, if they search their memories hard, can still remember when Elizabeth Taylor appeared opposite Roddy McDowall in Lassie Come Home, was seen around Hollywood playing with rabbits and turtles, and wrote a story about a pet chipmunk entitled Nibbles and Me. Ah, youth! Today every movie fan from Pomona to Pago Pago knows that when Elizabeth Taylor nibbles, it isn't chipmunks. And so when Liz got involved with a laddie who wouldn't come home and a lassie who wouldn't stand for it, Hollywood was in the midst of one of those major...
...campaigned against universities' traditional system of departmentalization and specialization. As an author, he tried to summarize (in his The Great Ideas-a Syntopicon) the history of Western thought (to be found in the Hutchins-and Adler-edited Great Books of the Western World), to reduce man's search for wisdom to 102 basic ideas. For the last six years, as director of the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco, Generalizer Adler has continued to specialize in reductions, seeking to shrink the unlimited seas of ideas into a fathomable pool of definitions. Now, in the first...
...ninety-three, has brought him into intimate contact with some of western man's greatest artistic creations and into the acquaintance and friendship of his most distinguished of contemporaries. Many have made the pilgrimage to I Tatti; some to engage Berenson in conversation, his favored "verbal art," others in search of wise counsel, yet others ask, and even cajole, the "world's greatest art expert" for his nod concerning the authenticity of works of art. Berenson has always proved affable, crudite and incorruptible. There were those, like Isabella Stuart Gardiner of Boston, who built collections on Berenson's word...
...partners will spend millions more before they are through. Tibaitata's biggest search is to discover ways to utilize the sun-seared, flash-flooded llanos, barren plains that comprise 60% of Colombia's land, house only 2% of its population. It is a search that not only Colombia but all South America watches with mounting interest. With its population growing at the world's fastest rate, by the year 2000 Latin America will be second only to Asia in numbers, and in desperate need of productive land...
...headlong crash into the future. Maggie the Cat (played with surprising sureness by Elizabeth Taylor) is young, beautiful, childless; her hot tin roof is the marital bed no longer shared by her husband Brick (Paul Newman), a onetime college athlete now tying on the booze bag every night in search of the "click in my head." Together they have come back to Big Daddy's "28,000 of the richest acres west of the River Nile," ostensibly for a family celebration of Big Daddy's 65th birthday. But the real cause of the gathering is the news that...