Word: films
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...favorite tipple, Coca-Cola. ··· With no training beyond two years of high school, he was successful as a surgeon, a psychology professor, a deputy prison warden and a zoologist. Little has been heard from Ferdinand Waldo Demara since Tony Curtis portrayed him in the 1961 film The Great Impostor. Now he has turned up as the pastor of a small Baptist Church on an island in Puget Sound, near Seattle. His flock of 30 has heard rumors about the Rev. Dr. Fred Demara, as he styles himself, but finds him "a tremendous...
...somebody wants to hear something." ··· "I have given you to be a light unto the nations," proclaims Isaiah 42:6. And since Isaiah is the favorite prophet of that light unto Israel, David Ben-Gurion, a Swiss company used 42-6 as the title of a film on the patriarch's life. It was the first movie that Ben-Gurion, 83, had ever sat all the way through. Said he: "It's almost like it was." ··· If Katharine Hepburn could make it in Coco, why not Lauren Bacall in Applause...
Teaching Man to Children Scene: a fifth-grade classroom in a public school in Newton, Mass. Fresh from seeing a film about baboons, the ten-year-olds are discussing "dominance"-the bane of every kid brother and sister. "I saw some birds eating bread," says a boy in a green shirt, "and this huge crow came along and took the bread because he was bigger than they were." The talk swings to the problem of dominance at the water fountain. "That's the way life is," says a pudgy philosopher. "You're weaker than the older...
...schools. Observes Dow: "Urban kids are much more attuned to questions of survival and not so frightened by some of the gutsier issues like death and reproduction." Few parents have objected to the course, even though it contains rather fundamental information on mating habits and some of the bloodiest film imaginable on the slaughtering of seals...
...Brown- 409 this semester. It is even possible, Archie C. Epps, assistant dean of the College, said last week, for a group of students to work together on a project for credit; and last year some students in Adams House organized the equivalent of a G.I.S.P. on "The Film." But most students are not aware of the possibility of group independent study...