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...1950s and 1960s, however, students demanded more courses dealing with contemporary issues, such as the structure of the American political system and energy development...
DIED. JAN STERLING, 82, cool blond actress, who played sharp supporting roles in such films of the 1950s as Caged and Ace in the Hole and snagged an Oscar nomination for her role as a passenger on a troubled airliner in 1954's The High and the Mighty; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
...generation of social movement” in the African American struggle for equal opportunity. In presenting her study of black survival, she focused on the life and career of Maude Callen, a nurse and midwife who served the community of Pineville, S.C., from the 1920s to the 1950s...
Like his hit CBS sitcom, Ray Romano’s first foray into the world of live action movies is straight out of the 1950s, in ways both amiably amusing and jarringly old-fashioned. Welcome to Mooseport finds Romano in the role of Handy Harrison, a small-town plumber whose most ambitious plans involve buying a new pick-up. As Handy’s long-suffering girlfriend of six years, Sally, Maura Tierney does a great impression of Patricia Heaton, Romano’s similarly impatient TV wife. Mooseport and Handy’s relationship are shaken...
Lowell famously galvanized the Faculty to oppose the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court and Conant tried to rid Harvard of suspected Communists during the 1950s...