Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bolder," he recalls. "I finally came to the conclusion that it was going beyond a free discussion. So I handed down an order banning any further meetings." Speaking of Rights. That order led to Owen's downfall. Having heard of Owen as a ringleader of the protesting G.I.s, Sidney W. Cook, New Orleans bureau chief for United Press International, called Owen and asked him his opinion about the ban on the meetings. Listening on an extension with Owen's knowledge was the young man's company commander. Capt. Gerald R. MacManus...
...evening. In ratings, they have slaughtered everything from ABC's American Bandstand to CBS's Playhouse go. Their titles alone have been irresistible -"The Cold Woman," "The Glamour Trap," "The Trapped Housewife," "Change of Life." The program hires first-rate talent, too. such as Sylvia Sidney (menopause), Kim Hunter (frigidity) and Phyllis Thaxter (the trapped housewife-in real life, Thaxter is the wife of James Aubrey, president...
...past, in Williams' real life, starts with a genealogical treeful of romantics, adventurers and notables: Poet Sidney Lanier, some Tennessee Indian fighters, an early U.S. Senator, and, way back, a brother of St. Francis Xavier. More prosaically, his father was a salesman for International Shoe Co. "C.C." (for Cornelius Coffin) Williams was a gruff, aggressive man with a booming voice who was happiest, says Tennessee, "playing poker with men and drinking." His mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, was petite, vivacious, genteel and prim; she nourished rather illusory memories of a grand and gracious Southern past, of going to dances...
...show at the Sidney Janis Gallery is a small retrospective; the one at the David Anderson Gallery concentrates on graphic works. Different as they are, the exhibitions eloquently recall Gorky's tortured perfectionism. At the Anderson Gallery there are six studies for one oil painting, each showing some refinement that Gorky made of its predecessor. The Janis exhibition, though incomplete, shows what a tireless experimenter...
Crooks pointed out that this year there will be no really famous scholars at the Summer School, as, for example, N.Y.U. professor Sidney Hook, who taught last year...