Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAILROAD MAN. Made in 1956, this minor drama is fired by a major talent: Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style), who plays the title role as an endearingly wrongheaded train engineer beset by commonplace woes...
...necessarily know at the time just what they were going to do with the story, the writers, researchers and editors directly responsible for the cover story got a good deal of personal feeling for it. Michael Demarest, THE NATION editor, was on his way home on the train to Croton-on-Hudson when power failed and the train ground to a halt about a mile north of Yonkers. He walked the mile, managed to get a cab home, and watched his children toasting marshmallows in the fireplace and 13-year-old Michelle, after the manner of another century, doing...
...there were some hysteria cases, but most of the imprisoned straphangers rose to the occasion. Aboard one train, a man who called himself Lord Echo got everybody to join him in calypso songs; two hours later, astonished rescuers found 50 passengers dancing in the aisles. Under the East River, 350 passengers had to slog to safety through mud, water and scurrying rats...
...certain sadness. For in the closing sequence, as she boards the express for Milan and then Paris, she wistfully eyes Checco and his company on the next track, en route to the provinces and vaudeville. One suspects that deep down, Fellini also wished he had been on that train...
...prompted major revisions in the school's Field Work Program, part of the core curriculum. The program originally was an attempt to teach the practical side of the parochial ministry by giving students apprenticeships in local churches. "But we decided in 1961 that it is just as important to train good theologians as it is to train good ministers," Tjord G. Hommes, the program's director, says...