Word: findings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books: The World Treasury of Grand Opera, an excellent biography of Puccini), but he is also the man responsible for an album called Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music. His conviction: If he can get customers started on "music, any kind of music," they will soon find they cannot do without it. "As the cigarette people believe, the habit is everything...
Most college presidents still feel that they cannot give up federal funds for needy students, however much they might wish to follow the Harvard-Yale principle. Ike voiced sympathy: "I rather deplore that universities have found it necessary to find, for the moment, a narrow dividing line and therefore keep a number of citizens out of taking advantage of the loan provisions that the Federal Government set up." But the President also put his full weight behind a possible compromise at the next session of Congress: repeal of the disclaimer affidavit, retention of the oath of allegiance. "For my part...
...dialogue awakened cafe scents of strong smoke, dry cognac and refracted thought ("Suppose you die and find out that the dead are only the living playing at being dead")And the story of an intellectual mamma's boy Communist up against a tough, cynical but gallant revolutionary was shot through with Marxist analysis. With such qualities Jean-Paul Sartre's Crime of Passion seemed an unlikely play for TV. But viewers in the New York area saw it last week, in a full-length and absorbing production, well acted by a cast that included Claude Dauphin and Betsy...
...example to date-WNTA's unbowdlerized production of Jean Anouilh's sex farce. The Waltz of the Toreadors, whose aging lecher-hero is fond of leaning forward to tickle young bosoms with his medals, meanwhile delivering lines not usually heard from TV gag writers: "Science ought to find a way of putting women permanently to sleep; we could wake them up for a while at night; then they would go back to sleep again...
...house for the uncle. Martereau drives the young man to distraction by his oxlike simplicity. "Words are not for him what they are for me," the invalid muses, "thin protective capsules that enclose noxious germs-but hard, solid objects . . . it's useless to open them up . . we should find nothing." Gradually, the young man detects-or invents-complications; is Martereau a swindler? He forces subtleties on the unyielding surface of reality; an adulterer, perhaps? Having posed her enigma, the author of this excellently written novel disappointingly leaves it for the reader to solve...