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...older brother was a “Sputnik child”—a science buff pushed into the field by the 1950s space race—who attended college at MIT. Franken expected to follow suit and enter the science field...
...fact, South Korea has a thriving contemporary film industry that, due to the roughness of history, has no past. War destroyed every one of 240 feature films made in Korea before the mid-1940s and most of those made during the 1950s as well. Young South Korean directors like edgy stories of violence and sex. Im is of a more mature school, preferring graceful period pieces, produced with Akira Kurosawa-style attention to costume and scenery and marked by a peculiarly Korean form of sadness called han. Shaped by countless foreign invasions and Korea's ensuing sense of rage...
Lesley Lee Francis ’52 kept a mass of press clippings in her desk. They documented a trip her mother and her grandfather took to South America in the mid-1950s...
...Wearing the tiara of a market economy won't change that, but it might just give Russia the boost it needs to get down to the less glamorous business of serious reform. DIGITAL VIDEO A BBC Show That's Hard to Ignore Since zenith invented remote control in the 1950s, life has often seemed like one big struggle over the TV. Digital video recorders (DVRS) are the ultimate in viewer control, allowing users to skip commercials, pause live programs and watch shows at their own pace, rather than on a broadcaster's schedule. So British subscribers to the TiVo...
...KNOWLEDGE BAZAAR A veritable souk of information about the formerly isolated sultanate, this site offers succinct rundowns of Omani history and culture as well as tantalizing virtual tours. Click on the recommended reading list, where you can buy explorer Wilfred Thesiger's 1950s epic Arabian Sands...