Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of Editor Mencken's 25 years of "literary scavenging," this is one of the rare books that deserve the well-worn greeting "Here at last." No greater nor more useful than Bartlett's Familiar Quotations or Burton Stevenson's Home Book of Quotations, its 1,347 close-printed, double-columned pages are nevertheless packed with entertainment, edification and some valuable innovations. The quotations are dated, whenever possible, back to the first man who uttered them. They are arranged not under their authors but "under many more rubrics than any other such work can show." With careful...
Praised by Robert S. Hillyer '17, Boylston Professor of Oratory, who was in general charge of the contest, as one of the best that he had heard the speeches were marked by the variety of their subject-matter. The winning selections were excerpts from a letter of Robert Louis Stevenson and an essay on Shakespeare by George Lyman Kittredge, formerly Gurney Professor of English Literature here...
Because it is virtually impossible to make current history credible on the screen, Joan is more melodrama than tragedy. But Director Robert Stevenson knows how to curl the hair: he moves his camera with breath-holding suspense through the Gestapo shadows of occupied Paris...
Unlike his night-blooming colleague, meticulous Robert Stevenson, 36, moved into his directorship with the precision of a mathematics teacher. Son of an English businessman, he took a "first" in mathematics at Cambridge University. A postgraduate thesis on the psychology of the cinema got him so interested in the subject that he persuaded Gaumont-British to take him on as a reader...
...until six years ago did Stevenson consider himself fit to direct a picture. By that time he knew his business, had visited Germany and France to study their excellent camera technique. The public liked his first picture (Tudor Rose), and Hollywood liked his second (Nine Days a Queen), offered him a contract. Says he: "There probably won't be a great movie made until the year 2000. Why? It took 1,800 years to produce a Beethoven, 1,600 years to produce a Rembrandt...