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...Stephen Addiss. He succeeds in looking the part, and his monologues are often too near reality to be amusing. But in all he captures the faculty spirit, and pleasantly at that. The supporting roles are a compendum of unusual types, including Chowderhead Chumley (Stephen Bolster), who is the suede jacket tough man for the Radcliffe operation. Wheareas he tends to shout more lines than he growls, his walk is an authentic back street swagger. One of his bosses is Congressman Al Gaiter (Robert Rosenberger), who is a bit rough for a slick politician, although he gives the impression...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: Snake Oil | 3/12/1955 | See Source »

...seems to show that Mathieu paints as he drives-as much to be seen as to see. To paint an abstraction of the 13th-century Battle of Bouvines (in which one of Mathieu's forebears had a part, of course) he dressed up in black silk pants and jacket, a white helmet, and greaves fastened to his shins with white cross-straps. Then he called in some admiring friends to watch the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Fox of Paris | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...Marlon Brando, longtime holdout from the social graces, gave signs that he is going Hollywood. Abandoning his slouch, he put on black tie and dinner jacket last week to accept the award of 1954's best actor from two associations of reporters from foreign countries who cover Hollywood. Brando also allowed that he would attend, for the first time, the Academy Award presentation on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Newsreel, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Miller, in his green checked jacket and yellow necktie, has also freed theology from its traditional dullness. On a wager with Professor harry Levin in the late 1940's, Miller began and undergraduate course on Christian theologians. He and his class discuss men from Augustine to Kicrkegard, but hardly in the usual way. To illustrate the meaning of the essence of God, Miller drew not on books but on baseball, and to show relative good and evil, the red Sox and the yankees were his illustrations...

Author: By John G. Wofford, | Title: Happy Puritan | 3/4/1955 | See Source »

...gave way backward as gracefully as I could, aware of the padding in the shoulder of my jacket. Just as I turned to leave, I heard someone say, "The heart of a Judoist must at all times be like a thousand mirrors, reflecting god-like speed and courage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

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