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Great Expectations is one more tribute to J. Arthur Rank's talent as a movie mogul-a talent which appears to consist, most importantly, in furnishing gifted people with the wherewithal and then leaving them severely alone (TIME, May 19). The film (the first English movie to play Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 26, 1947 | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

In a recent and wise move, the English Department voted to end the discrete, or building-block, approach to literature which permitted non-honors men to get a degree simply by accumulating, magpie-style, a collection of unrelated courses. Concentrators from the class of 1950, and those who follow, will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rout of the Magpies | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

No decline in the standards of the examination itself is planned. Non-honors candidates will simply be asked to answer two of three questions, while honors men will answer them all. Which is a tacit admission that they will be expected to know only two-thirds as much as they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rout of the Magpies | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

Navigation. In a tiny country 4½ air hours southeast of Miami, even as decisive a will as the Benefactor's must reckon with the U.S., and Trujillo has done it. He has built one of the Hemisphere's finest hotels in his capital to convince U.S. visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Beautiful Murder | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

The chief failure of the play, however, was in the individual performances. The general run achieved a wooden mediocrity which broke the back of any attempt to maintain the professional illusion which has characterized recent HDC and other local efforts. Others were more objectionable: Walter Frank completely misplayed Joxer, making...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/7/1947 | See Source »

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