Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before making up its mind on the third-reactor issue, the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy held extensive closed-door hearings. A special panel of four outside experts, including onetime AEChairman Gordon Dean, unanimously concluded that "present and planned output of reactor products is substantially inadequate to meet the minimum future needs of the armed services," and a parade of witnesses agreed...
Such was the mood of tragic burlesque in which the great Goldfine show bumped and ground to a halt last week. In the final hours the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight tugged a few more details from crafty Witness Goldfine, who, giving only facts that he knew the committee could already prove from other sources, admitted to press and Congress that...
...airport a half hour later, McClintock and Shehab linked up with the U.S. special commander in the Middle East, Admiral James L. ("Lord Jim") Holloway, newly arrived. McClintock interpreted Shehab's French for Lord...
...Winter's Tale, which the Stratford Festival has chosen as its third item in this year's repertory, presents special problems. Unlike The Tempest, it violates the unities of time and place, with a gap of 16 years in the middle. Before the gap, the play is unrelieved tragedy; after the gap, it is mostly pastoral romance. For this reason the more superficial commentators have regarded Tale as two plays. It is one play, however; and this production, under the combined direction of John Houseman and Jack Landau, preserves its oneness successfully...
What is good in The Horn is its good try at isolating the serious jazzman's special brand of musical thinking. Like most good jazzmen, The Horn had the stuff in his blood. He taught himself to play because nothing else seemed to him more worth learning. His mother took in washing; his father was a railroad hand who advised his son to get some kind of steady colored man's job that carried a sure weekly wage. But Edgar Pool could hear nothing but the music within him. So he played, badly at first, but doggedly...