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Wisse had studied English as an undergraduate at McGill University during the mid-1950s. Jewish authors were sometimes included in her curriculum, but they were not recognized as bearers of a rich intellectual, cultural and spiritual legacy...
DIED. LLOYD BRIDGES, 85, protean actor and patriarch of an acting dynasty, whose myriad roles ranged from the dramatic (High Noon) to the slapstick (Airplane!) and, most famously, to the adventurous (Sea Hunt); in Los Angeles. As former Navy frogman and underwater gumshoe Mike Nelson in the 1950s television series, Bridges popularized skin diving, though he felt artistically hemmed in by his watery role and once mused, "If we could just get some way to do Hamlet underwater, I'd be happy." In later life he presided over the careers of sons Beau and Jeff, who got their start acting...
...French club hasn't existed at Harvard since the 1950s...
...academic scholarship and public accessibility. The essays in Reversing Relations may be more interesting than a foreign policy textbook, but can hardly be called riveting. Ironically, those interested in reading Reversing Relations probably already know most of the information the book presents; anyone who has been around since the 1950s and kept up with current events will have seen nearly all the events offered here unfolding as they happened...
...American Dream. The design staff at General Motors copied the first fins off a top-secret U.S. Air Force plane (the Lockheed P-38), quietly grafting them as little bumps on the rear of the 1948 Cadillac. The next year's model was a best seller, and as the 1950s progressed, the fins proliferated. They appeared on Oldsmobiles, on Buicks, on Chryslers, with Fords finally sprouting them in 1957. The fins, fickle as Paris hemlines, grew wide and high, rising to 40 in. off the ground on the '59 Cadillac Eldorado...