Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...precise, monocled German psychiatrist attempted to convince three U.S. judges-Fred Cohn, John Speight and Herman Elegant-that Yvette was of unsound mind. Immaculate in morning coat and pinstriped trousers, Professor Karl Kleist testified that Mrs. Madsen was reacting to a deep-seated persecution complex when she shot her husband for laughing at her Brooklynese. "As far as I am informed," explained the professor, "this is the dialect of the common people. Since it revealed Mrs. Madsen's common origin, she felt insulted...
...topic of the Forum, held at the Rindge Tech Auditorium, was "Women's Education: Career or Kitchen." The two other speakers, playwright Lillian Hellman and President Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence, agreed that women's education was inadequate to meet the demands of a tremendously complex society, but claimed that this shortcoming carried over to men's education as well. Miss Hellman stated that "the inability to find a proper role in life cannot be confined to career women, but all modern women and men as well...
Without spending a cent of its own money (it had only $10,000), Junto in effect bought 4,028 houses worth some $32 million in Levittown, the Long Island mass housing development of Levitt & Sons. This complex deal in high finance was devised by bustling, mop-haired Philip Klein, a retired advertising man now Junto's non-salaried business manager. He had no trouble selling the deal to Builder William Levitt, who saw in it a way to save on his taxes...
...companies have guarded their secrets as closely as Hollywood's Technicolor, Inc. It never sold any of its complex cameras; it merely "sold a service" to the moviemakers, stipulated that the cameras be manned by Technicolor's own crews. Every night the cameras were taken back to Technicolor's laboratories. Even Technicolor employees, who are hired, according to gagsters, "for their native reticence," often worked on only one phase of the Technicolor process, to keep them from learning the whole business...
Variety, reporting that "viewers throughout had the feeling it was live TV," hailed the show as probably answering "many of video's most complex problems." Convinced that television's future now lies in Hollywood, Director Telford saw the Fairbanks method doing away with a lot of strain and split-second timing. He predicted cheerily: "It will take the ulcers out of the business...