Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most moderate view was taken by Zeph Stewart, Associate professor of Greek and Latin. "For those interested in nineteenth and twentieth century literature, the new requirement of a modern language is just as helpful," he said, but called the change "a great pity" for periods up to the nineteenth century...
...ideas, that fact is hardly to be wondered at and not entirely to be condemned. The only trouble is that once the team of six writers who "adapted" the book decided to discard the philosophy of Tolstoy as impossible to dramatize, they failed to settle on a point of view of their own. And so they and director King Vidor produced a huge, handsome picture which might be called a historical romance, complete with all the superficial charm and the vacuity that the name implies...
...most exciting finds in the past two decades is the 20-in.-tall statuette of the Mayan Rain God Chaac (see color), one of two discovered by a Carnegie Institution expedition in the ruined Yucatan city of Mayapan, and now on view at Mexico City's National Museum. Probably sculpted from clay in the 14th century, the prong-nosed Chaac is seen here in full regalia, with all his accouterments worked out in the full complexity of the Mayan style...
This Way to Egress. In Fredericton, N.B., the Daily Gleaner printed an ad for the Bill Lynch Shows, a carnival, touting "An Extra Added Attraction, a close-up view of that strangest of all living creatures-the Two Legged...
...strongly contrasting view was expressed by Robert Braucher, professor of Law, who felt that the appointment fitted in with his views as expressed last Wednesday that the new justice should "represent different segments" of the population. He felt that Brennan was not chosen "to make election capital...