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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quibble with acting, in this case, is not to question the success of the play. There probably will be people who don't think This Sort of Thing should be put on by a Harvard dramatic group. They are wrong; this Kaufman and Hart is as good theater as Giradoux and as some Shakespeare. The HDC has a fine show this fortnight...
M.I.T. has become a place for differential analyzers, spectro-photometers, oscillographs and thryatron tubes. Out of its laboratories it has managed to produce such unexpected specimens as Humorist Gelett Burgess and Author Stuart Chase. But M.I.T.'s alumni are more apt to be of another sort: Donald Douglas of Douglas Aircraft, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Gerard Swope of General Electric, and at least ten Du Fonts...
...Fourth Estate. In a way, Killian will be an odd sort of president for M.I.T. He is neither a scientist nor an engineer, and he never earned a Ph.D. He is a quiet, competent man, who got his bachelor's degree in business and engineering administration. To support himself as a student, he went to work for the Technology Review, stayed until 1939 when President Karl T. Compton made him his executive assistant. A kindly and laconic man who likes hiking and the novels of George
...play by Oscar Wilde. At its original best, 57 years ago, Lady Windermere's Fan was little more than a stylish vehicle for Wilde's wicked quips and epigrams. At its 20th Century movie worst, it emerges as a sentimental woman's drama-a sort of Stella Dallas in turn-of-the-century stays...
...bones the sufferings of his countrymen ; their son Antonio, an embittered ex-soldier who had welcomed the American soldiers but now hated them for their attentions to Italian women. It was a house where one could love or hate, but where no one could engage in the sort of painless barter Robert had hoped...