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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After unveiling a well-veiled figure of Cinemorsel Marilyn Monroe, the proprietors of Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London confirmed that the statue wears no lingerie. In a sort of sexless Statue-of-Liberty pose, the figure, neighbor to a likeness of Britain's Actor Sir Ralph Richardson, brings Marilyn the honor of being the only U.S.-born cinemactress currently exhibited by the famed museum. Only U.S.-born cinemactors on display at the moment: Danny Kaye and Alan Ladd...
...been dishing it out to TV for eleven years in the New York Herald Tribune and 95 other papers, started taking it last week. After serving as narrator in the debut of CBS's The Seven Lively Arts, Crosby "went into a state of shock" at the sort of things TV critics say about a new performer...
Certainly, a strange sort of cultural calm has settled over the nation's colleges, at least on the surface. No campus is without its atrocity story of intellectual deadness. At the University of Michigan, Vice President for Student Affairs James Lewis asked a group of 100 students what they thought of Aldous Huxley. "Only one or two of them," he reported, "had ever heard of him." At Kenyon, Poet-Critic John Crowe Ransom sadly detects "a sort of idleness of the creative imagination." At the University of Illinois, English Professor Charles Shattuck complains : "A secondhand bookstore wouldn...
...subject of art-or on any subject, for that matter-is casual. "Anything that is in any way heroic or looks heroic," says Philosophy Major Peter Gunter of the University of Texas, "thumbs down. Don't ever stand up and pound your fist about anything, because that is sort of childish...
...roughest racket in sport. But it is not the physical danger that concerns him. "There is absolutely no money guarantee," he complains. "You've even got to furnish your own equipment, and you have to pay entry fees to compete. If you're hurt, you have to sort of scuffle around for yourself...