Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a college campus, a C is still a fashionable grade for a bright young man whose pursuit of fun often overrules his search for knowledge. But not any longer at Massachusetts' Amherst College. There "gentleman C" and even B students whose performances do not measure up to their abilities have a new name: underachievers. With the title is awarded a mandatory one-year leave of absence from the college. Last week, in his annual report, Amherst President Charles W. Cole said that the college's program to unload loafers had fared well during its first experimental year...
...oldest Christian traditions. It is also the easiest to dramatize. Canticles of the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries-designed to teach doctrine to an illiterate public as well as to entertain-were the precursors of the medieval miracle plays. Some of the old canticles contain poetry that still has power to evoke the mystery and miracle of Christmas, as for example the 5th century Contacio of St. Romanus of Emesa in which the Wise Men are invited to see for themselves the "rich poverty...
...Gull (1954), Thieves' Carnival (1955), The Beaux' Stratagem, and The Power and the Glory (last year). Bosley won the La Guardia role over more than 200 other contenders (both Mickey Rooney and Eli Wallach had been considered), prepared himself by listening to recordings, reading biographies and studying still photographs, but he carefully avoided overdoing all that. "I do an impression," he says, "not an imitation...
...Sand. To visitors last week, the foundry was still the place of weird shapes and leaping shadow that Duchamp-Villon and Brancusi knew well. In one room, sweet-smelling brown wax boiled on a rosy, potbellied stove. In the 100-ft.-long casting shed, coke fires hissed under fat crucibles shaped like medieval cannons, and overhead hoists trundled swaddled casts to their firing-pits. In a finishing room, a workman lay in the arms of a large bronze nude, reverently polishing her nose. In another corner, Marc Chagall supervised the application of a patina to his latest piece. Mustache quivering...
Basically a Republican newspaper, the Star does not accept a liberal or conservative label, always reserves the right to cross party lines. Roy Roberts was one of the first Eisenhower-for-President crusaders in 1952 and still stands firmly behind Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. But the Star has taken strong exception to some Eisenhower Administration policies (it called for the resignation of John Foster Dulles long before he became ill), and last year it enthusiastically supported the re-election of Kansas City's Democratic Congressman Richard Boiling...