Word: visual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well have stirred envy in the narrow breast of "Evil-Eye" Fleegle. As readers of Cartoonist Al Capp's Li'L Abner know, Fleegle, a saturnine resident of Brooklyn, has eyes of compelling power. Mother Nature, in a misguided moment, endowed him with the ability to transmit visual whammies. A single whammy can stop a policeman in his tracks. Slightly stronger whammies will tame a gorilla or stun a herd of oxen. Rarely, only rarely, does Fleegle loose the lightning bolt of a double whammy, which is powerful enough to heat a city the size of Wilkes-Barre...
...Schnitzler's Liebelei. Opuls knows all there is to know about romantic values: flirtations in the Prater, late on a winter night; a military band concert in a provincial city; the way a veteran roue misunderstands a refined and ardent woman. Some of his scenes have such strong visual charm that the dialogue recedes to a sort of musical accompaniment. But by & large the movie talks rather than sings -and talks too much and too long...
Professor Wald, who is an authority on the chemistry of visual systems, joined the Biology Department in 1935. He also received recognition from the American Chemical Society in 1939, when he was named winner of the Eli Lilly and Company award...
This week marks the 140th Anniversary of Pierian, in celebration whereof, a special Anniversary Concert has been scheduled for Friday evening. The visual enticements of the Radcliffe Dance Group will also be on display to put the final clink into the Sodality's toast to itself...
...MARCH OF TIME Forum Edition is its increasing contribution to a relatively new and fast growing information medium. When they were first launched, the films were directed to an audience that had access to only some 30,000 16 mm. projectors. Now, through the nation's 350 visual education dealers, the Forum films are distributed to owners and renters of over 100,000 projectors...