Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Snow admits that Eliot had his base in autobiography, even though much of him is invented. But it is not Eliot of whom I thought, talking with Snow, but rather Arthur Brown: "Jago might indulge his emotions, act with a fervour that Brown thought excessive and in bad taste, . . . show nothing like the solid rational decorums which was Brown's face to the world. Brown's affection did not budge. In the depth of his heart he loved Jago's wilder outbursts, and wished that he could have gone that way himself. Had he sacrificed too much in reaching...
...second Godkin lecture on "Science and Government," Sir Charles picked up the threads of narrative where he had left off: with the conclusion of his historic "parable" concerning two English scientists and their portentous . His purpose in using the parable was to show how it is that in advanced societies, "a handful of man make secret decisions which determine in crudest sense whether we live...
Daniel Mann apparently is showing off his directorial ability in the long opening scene, in which Miss Taylor wakes up, mumbles "Liggett" twice, and then goes about her toilette. Mr. Mann faithfully records Miss Taylor as she stretches, yawns, wipes the sleep out of her eyes, brushs her teeth, gargles, and so on. I was expecting the camera to show Miss Taylor as she . . . well, never mind what I was expecting. It is this sort of moronic half-faithfulness to the book--reflected again a bit later when a taxi driver nearly runs down a couple and then cusses them...
...Naval unit obtained the film--which is being circulated throughout the country by a private firm--from Headquarters, First Naval District. It was under no orders to show the film, and, according to Major Bruce A. Heflin, USMC, associate professor of Naval Science, the unit had "no particular intent" in showing it, except that it was deemed of interest to NROTC students and the general public. (Commander A. E. Brown, the unit's executive officer, however, had drawn a round of hisses when he introduced the film, saying, "the Navy's purpose in presenting this movie is to show...
This afternoon, the Department of Naval Science will show a film, Operation Abolition, which deals, according to the Department, with the "communist-inspired" student riots against the House Un-American Activities Committee in San Francisco last May. Although distributed by a private firm, the film was prepared by two Un-American Activities Committee staff workers and is being circulated around the country with the Committee's endorsement...