Word: virtuese
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What are these values? Probably each alumnus defines them for himself. Co-operation, friendship, loyalty, and an understanding and appreciation that goes deeper than common tolerance are certainly included. Intellectual and editorial honesty, willingness to accept and consider criticism from any source, and the maintenance of breadth and varsity in...
On the last day, the record companies worked long, shirt-sleeved hours to wax what they could. On the Coast, Decca's Jack Kapp personally supervised the last output (with orchestra) of his longtime meal ticket, Bing Crosby. In Chicago, the virtues of soup, soda, beer and cheese were...
Gregory Peck turns in the first performance that may trouble his well-wishers. Although he has worked exceedingly hard to become an Englishman (he studied a recording of an Anthony Eden speech), he remains unmistakably American in appearance and bearing. A tremendously cagey and accomplished actor might conceivably have made...
Ulysses S. Grant, a good general and a poor President, credited his sons with virtues they never had. He reportedly thought that Ulysses Jr. had a "marvelous business capacity; that Colonel Frederick Grant was fit to command armies; that Jesse was a mathematical genius." The less indulgent New York World...
Even those who have often considered the great potentialities of the motion picture as an art medium may pause on seeing "Shoeshine" and wonder that a group of actors and technicians could so well utilize the camera while handicapped by the frugality of post-war Italy. But out of such...