Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophisticated fairy tale, Time Remembered is sheer Molnár-and perhaps not quite sheer enough in itself. It has been attractively fairy-tailored: imaginative Oliver Smith sets, chic Miles White costumes, pretty Vernon Duke background music. And Anouilh has given it good writing enough, and elegant mannerism enough, of its own. But at times the play seems merely thin where it should be diaphanous, merely slight where it ought to be airy. Perhaps it needs a born pastry cook like Molnar, with his delicately browned, bite-sized ironies and his lightly philosophic macaroons. Perhaps it needs a more pervasive...
...Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute, inaugurated a "Room of Contemporary Art," where moderns were hung experimentally, then either acquired permanently or resold. This system, widely copied by other museums, was carried on by Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, now head of Yale University Art Gallery, and current Albright Director Gordon M. Smith, 51, who switched the emphasis to U.S. abstract expressionists. The result of the Albright's venturesome buying is a modern collection that ranks in quality right behind such mammoth institutions as Manhattan's Modern Art, Whitney, and Metropolitan museums...
Actually, passive as he may seem in comparison with his predecessors, today's student is anything but smug. Says Daniel Aaron, professor of English at Smith: "If young people behaved after World War II exactly as they did before it, there would really be something wrong with them." The student now simply faces a different kind of world. It demands that he be brighter, more conscientious, more in earnest than his predecessors. If he refuses to play the rebel, it is probably because he feels he must cover too much ground to prepare himself for the future. Perhaps...
...minor one. Of 68 conference members answering a poll on 1958 business, most agreed that business would slip a bit until well into 1958, with an upturn starting late in the year. Only five expected a steady rise throughout the year; only four predicted a continuous decline. Said Leonard Smith, commercial research manager for U.S. Rubber Co.: "This is one of those modern recessions where no one feels much pain. I am convinced that it's not going to be very deep...
...Princetonian quoted Police Chief John H. Smith as saying, "We won't hesitate to go right out to Palmer Stadium and yank somebody off the field." In a front page editorial, the Prince said, "Justice should be done, but not in a kangaroo, court presided over by a bulldog...