Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of it is poor." Since then, Pitt's faculty has been strengthened, and its salaries have been raised. Last week Chancellor Litchfield announced a gift that should do much to realize the university's aim of excellence: $12 million, the great bulk of it to be spent for teaching and graduate study, presented by the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. Breakdown of the huge grant...
ALTHOUGH he spent most of his life in Germany, Lyonel Feininger framed and shaped his art in America. The son of a German concert violinist, Feininger was born and brought up in Manhattan. Among his earliest memories was that of seeing stripe-suited prisoners marching in lock step on Blackwells (now Welfare Island. "This made a wretched impression on me." he recalled. "I took to drawing ghosts for a while, and this may have laid the foundation for my fantastic figures and caricatures." When he was 16, Feininger went to Europe to study music. Soon he switched...
...quite so badly as many parents fear, reported three British sociologists last week in a thick new book, Television and the Child (sponsored by Britain's Ford-like Nuffield Foundation). For three years, in five English cities, the researchers studied 4,500 children (ages: 10-14) who spent more time (an average two hours daily) watching TV than on any other home activity. Some of the conclusions...
Really Faithful. Out of the swimming pools, Tammy went to New York, studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and spent two years playing in somber epics, including Mourning Becomes Electra. TV and a few other acting bits kept Tammy going until 1954, when she met and later married Canada-born Actor Christopher Plummer, now starring in Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. At the time, Tammy was working in the box office at the Westport (Conn.) Playhouse. "They fired me," she says, "because I lost them $500 giving away free passes." (The habit still afflicts her. At the Downstairs...
...father ran a greenhouse in Saginaw, Mich., and Roethke spent his childhood in the steaming, close atmosphere of growing things. Perhaps as a result, his imagery has an easy intimacy with slugs, birds, frogs, snakes, and in his deep disaffection for the world of men, he often seems happier to inhabit that simpler world. "I'm sure I've been a toad, one time or another," he writes. "With bats, weasels, worms-I rejoice in the kinship...