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...worst thing about Goldwyn's Porgy, though, is its cinematic monotony. The film is not so much a motion picture as a photographed opera. Just to make sure the customers get the point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak...
...Otto and Mary Krai, who live on a farm near Hastings, Minn., have one main goal in life: they want to educate their son. So last year they took seven-year-old Tommy out of Lakeland-Afton public school after watching him vegetate on a soda-pop diet of "life-adjustment" courses. Mary Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition...
July 23: Otto J. Brendel: "The Classical Style in Modern...
Some of the members of the faculty, which includes outstanding members of the Harvard faculty and visitors from universities throughout the world, are: Prof. Stephen K. Bailey of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; Prof. Otto J. Brendel of Columbia University; Prof. Henry C. Darby of the University of London; Dr. Edmund J. King of the University of London; Prof. Allen Tate of the University of Minnesota; Prof. Hans J. Morgenthau of the University of Chicago; and Prof. C. Crane Brinton of Harvard University...
...throats by night. Payday is so important that those who have shoes put them on for a few minutes as they stand in line for their money. And second in real authority only to the white overseer is Tiger-because he can read and write. He makes friends: Chinese Otto, who orders a radio but does not know it requires electricity; the village laborers, who engage in a mass wife beating when the wives ask the storekeeper to sell no more rum on credit...