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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Burton plays Jimmy perfectly straight, without the bitter elan and charm of Kenneth Haigh's stage performance. His approach to Jimmy's tirades is a bit too far on the heavy-breathing side for complete conviction, but he has a craggy, intense, remarkably expressive face. Mary Ure's Alison--a role which she created--is fragile, appealing, slightly vapid, and very, very blonde...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Look Back in Anger | 9/30/1959 | See Source »

...Supreme Court has not heard any arguments on the Dollarway case and similar cases. It is faced with the uncomfortable alternatives of denying school boards the right to approach desegregation in their own fashion (The NAACP is currently trying to force a North Carolina town into producing an overall desegregation plan), or allowing a skillful legal device to sabotage the spirit of its 1954 ruling. The question of whether assignment by race is justified when accompanied by the right to appeal for transfer is central in the case. If it is justified, Southern schools will have their "pioneers," Jackie Robinsons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pupil Placement | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

...believe that there is an analogy between scholarship and social and economic life," he stated. Jewish scholarship has been characterized in modern times by the broad way it deals with its subject, Wolfson said. In nineteenth century scholarship Jews had the most liberal and most universal approach; no Jewish philosopher or student of philosophy ever dealt with his subject1

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Jewish Students Profess Identity, Discard Belief | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...traversal of the sleepwalking scene proved to be highly controversial. Miss McKenna injected a lot of agitation into it and pitched it high--an approach that drew the fire of some of the critics in the daily press. These evidently conceive of somnambulism as always graceful, and of somniloquy as exclusively a lyrical, if not whispered nocturne. This is, to be sure, the customary way of doing the scene; but Miss McKenna's way was valid and convincing, too. Her critics should have remembered that one can do violent things in one's sleep; and that Lady Macbeth's mind...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Local Drama Sparks Summer Season | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Features on the attitudes of undergraduate Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, agnostics and atheists are included, as well as an article on the College political spectrum. Each of the religious groups has been covered by a member of the faith discussed, in order to provide a more understanding approach. Any writer's statements do not necessarily reflect CRIMSON policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Religion and Politics at Harvard | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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