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...making errors. Always understanding, the machine holds back a difficult exercise until the pupil is ready. If set up to teach typing, it can tell the pupil which finger to use and in which direction to move it. If the pupil is a hardened hunt-and-peck typist, the teacher will discover his sloppy habits and set about correcting them at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Schoolteacher | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Fortunately the characters spend little time making speeches. Gregory Peck as the man in the gray flannel suit, Jennifer Jones as his wife, and Fredric March as the tycoon all do a great deal for their roles. Peck's is the toughest part. He gives a more than adequate performance as a man who acts decisively and honestly out of a strong self-respect--which is what his boss most lacks--without being especially superficial. Jennifer Jones and Fredric March skillfully manage dramatic scenes which in other hands might invite disaster. With scarcely an exception, the minor characters--like...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Man in the Grey Flannel Suit | 4/10/1956 | See Source »

...spite of its length and the slickness that sometimes makes it too neat, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a good movie. It deals with Madison Avenue squarely and in its own terms; so that what the movie "says" has meaning for its subject. Once Gregory Peck is first shown on his commuter's train, the action devolops consistently out of itself, and the pleas for some kind of honesty or simplicity have a meaning for the people from whom they come...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Man in the Grey Flannel Suit | 4/10/1956 | See Source »

...less ambitious and more poetic, the traditional banks of the Charles have become softer and greener, or perhaps it is the atmosphere that has become more relaxing and more colorful. A few authors with typewriters and beards peck and hunt for a minute, then close their eyes and listen for five. Touch-tackle games flourish only to pause when the refreshing pinks and powder-blues float...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cruelest Month | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Law School, and Kingman Brewster, Jr., professor of Law, will discuss "What to Expect in Law School" and "Breaking the Firm Barrier" at the first meeting of the society, which was organized last week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pre-Law Body Meets | 3/1/1956 | See Source »

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