Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actors and producers earned their best marks in the documentary and semi-documentry line. In Background (NBC, Sundays, 5:30 E.S.T), Producer Ted Mills turned a sympathetic, revealing eye on Puerto Rico's dirt-poor barrio farmers, their homes and their lush hills, and their first efforts to develop better roads and schools through community cooperation. With notable restraint and suspense, CBS's Danger (Tues. 10 p.m. E.S.T.) re-enacted the story of Polish Skipper Jan Cwiklinski (played by George Voskovec), who escaped from his ship Batory in 1953 despite close Communist surveillance and his long-held conviction...
...vain and fading actress, Wendy Mackenzie as an ingenuous country girl who becomes more or less great in betrayal, and Andre Gregory, playing an author whose weakness and fine sensibilities combine to ruin lives. These three set a hard mark for the rest with thoughtful portrayals designed intelligently to develop and exploit the respective characters. Especially in Gregory's case one sees how his characterization during the early, seemingly unimportant scenes, is a well calculated build-up to his later scenes. All three deserve more than the credit normally accorded to local performers...
...sometimes fear," M.I.T.'s liberal arts dean, John Ely Burchard, says of engineering students, "lest in the necessary pursuit of their education they shall not have time to develop a sense of proportion about the whole society." In recognition of this fear M.I.T. will inaugurate a five-year study program next year whereby students may simultaneously earn both a science and a liberal arts degree...
Most ancient civilizations start from simple beginnings, e.g., those of Mesopotamia. In the lowest levels of their long-inhabited sites are found the crude implements of near-savages. Then, little by little, the culture improves. The people build better homes and temples; they learn higher crafts. At last they develop a written language and begin recording their history for archaeologists to read. Some of the new culture elements come from foreign contacts, but the origin of each imported item can generally be traced...
...much. Said he: Let's not waste time arguing about the need for stability. "For over 300 years there was more stability than was good for human nature." Latin America, said Lleras Camargo, is having its industrial and cultural revolution all in a rush; it can either develop under government control or through imaginative private investment. "Is such a spirit lacking in the U.S.?" he asked. "I don't think so." Added Lleras Camargo: U.S. capital cannot let the chance get away by waiting for insurance against "loss, risks and yellow fever...