Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard Cash. Charlie Rhyne's first view of the law in action came when he was eleven or twelve. "A man who was a member of one of the big families of the county had his throat slit from ear to ear by his wife, an outsider," says Rhyne. "The feeling in the community against the girl was extremely adverse. The attorney who defended her was an old string-tie lawyer named C. W. Tillett. I begged my father into letting me go to the trial one day. Tillett engaged in flamboyant arguments, told the jury...
...Taking a fresh view of the conflict between high school fringe benefits and academic courses, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, president of the Johns Hopkins University, observed: "I am not opposed to classes in driver training, typing, woodworking, (cooking and the like), except when they are substituted for sound intellectual development." The trouble is, he said, they are substituted all too often. His proposal: "Remove all peripheral subjects (from the four-year high school curriculum). Concentrate these subjects in a 13th school year for those who want vocational education." ¶From Dr. William G. Carr, executive secretary of the National Education Association...
...moving lyricism: Schweik's apostrophe on war ("Who will go to the war when it comes?") and the Chorus of Wounded Soldiers ("Wait for the ragged soldiers") in the final scene. But overall, the music was too fragmented to be effective, or to redeem the curiously Panglossed-over view that marred the libretto : the apparent belief that Schweik's numskullery is a kind of nobility, and his doglike devotion the only logical defense against the depravity around...
Collector Adelaide Milton de Groot, 82, is one of that expatriate generation that produced Baltimore's Gertrude Stein. The pick of her collection, ranging from Delacroix to choice Modiglianis, is on view at Manhattan's Perls Galleries, to benefit the League for Emotionally Disturbed Children. Heiress to several family fortunes, Collector de Groot lived in Paris' Gare de Lyon hotel for six years, was soon so chatty with art dealers that she was lunching in their back rooms. Her collection is a reminder of what bargains went begging in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Now snug...
Pomposity, of course, has its place, but at Harvard an eccentric quirk, a naughty presumption to familiarity, even perhaps the audacity to view life through Kiwanian-colored glasses is regarded by the sedate, the haughty, the chic as being tres gauche. A return to childhood is in order...