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Department officials admit that theory could be compacted into a term or less, and that in the remainder of the courses undergraduates could draw and paint. Only a stubborn pursuit of tradition keeps Fine Arts 12 an abstract color wheel: a creative course smacks of "vocational training" against which President Lowell set University policy twenty-six years ago. But an elementary course in painting would not possibly be vocational because it would not produce any professional artists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine Arts Frailties | 5/9/1950 | See Source »

...school to become a model, went into the silent films in 1923, when she was 17. Dissatisfied with insipid ingenue roles in westerns and comedies, she spent three years on Broadway (1932-34) in five forgotten plays until Hollywood consented to give her parts more to her liking. Her stubborn insistence on fighting for scripts she wanted -and her taste in choosing them-has given her a long string of movie hits. The latest: A Foreign Affair (1948). Her present contract commits her to three more films, allows her to act on Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...greatest difficulties in treating childless couples is not medical but just stubborn male pride. Many men refuse to believe that they may be to blame and will not submit to examination or treatment. Last week, the publishers of Human Fertility and Problems of the Male were doing a humming business in mail orders from laymen. But not one writer admitted that he wanted the book for himself. It was always a cousin or a brother or a friend who needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Advice to the Childless | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...freshman lacrosse team came from behind three times yesterday, beating a stubborn Tabor Academy squad, 8 to 7, on the Business School Field. Norm Hatch scored the winning goal at 8:05 of the final period after taking a perfect set-up pass from Pete Franklin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Pitching Excels in Vacation Wins; Freshman Lacrosse Team Nips Tabor, 8-7 | 4/20/1950 | See Source »

City Lights (United Artists) was Charlie Chaplin's first movie of the sound-film era. Released in 1931, three years after the birth of the talkies, and billed as a comedy romance "in pantomime," it all but ignored sound. The film was Chaplin's stubborn, inspired rebuke to a screen which, in learning how to talk, seemed to have forgotten how to do anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hardy Perennial | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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