Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beacon Hill Theatre took a chance when it booked Ivy Films' two productions, "Much Ado About Studying" and "A Touch of the Times" to run with the 1949 Newspaper Guild Award winner, "The Quiet One." While the two College Films are an amazing achievement for a young, penny-pinched undergraduates group, they can hardly be expected to equal professional production standards. The audience expects just his, unfortunately, after kicking in 90 cents a head...
...something about it ... evacuate them or go back to a place where they were safe. For example, you could put a dozen American divisions in the Breton peninsula [in France], where they can be covered by our own sea and air power, and the Russians couldn't touch them to save their souls...
...membership, combined with Dunster's geographical isolation, produced an independent unit which was model of how the House system at Harvard should work. This year's graduating seniors are the last who were in touch with the post-war set, and the House at present seems to be in the position of feeling out for a new character...
Navy searchlights scanning the sky over the Beacon Hill Theatre at 8:30 p.m. tonight will herald the extra-Cambridge premiere of Ivy Films' feature-length fantasy, "A Touch of the Times," and the world premiere of its "Much Ado About Studying...
...Crimean War, a bearded, solemn-eyed young Briton jogged along with the armies in a boxlike wagon marked "Photographic Van." He was Roger Fenton, the first war photographer in history, and he succeeded in catching the authentic mood of Crimea (see opposite page) with the same craftsman's touch that Mathew Brady displayed later in the U.S. Civil War. Last week many a Briton was discovering Fenton's genius in a photographic supplement of The Cornhill, literary quarterly founded by William Makepeace Thackeray...