Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...King Akhnaton, who came to the throne about 1370 B.C. He demanded that his trembling sculptors carve him as he really looked: "Elongated head, gaunt face, slender limbs, distended stomach-no detail of this kind was spared ... On the contrary everything that was wrong from that aesthetic point of view was exaggerated, just like those modern works which strike the imagination while shocking established opinion...
While at Harvard, Schmidt will study mostly in the History department, with a view to supplementing his knowledge of European affairs. He will concentrate especially on Russia and Communism...
...husband. Holden, the script writer whose inability to get anywhere leads to his becoming Miss Swanson's "kept man," suffers through this indignity with a convincing series of pained expressions and outbursts, while his voice narrates the story from a "there I was, what-could-I-do" point of view. Miss Olsen is the "other girl" whose love for Holden brings the piece to its violent conclusion and brings on Miss Swanson's complete breakdown...
...clear Wednesday evening that Ted Husing knows next to nothing about boxing. If he does, he managed to conceal it with immense skill during his commentary for the television audience of the Louis-Charles fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. Husing's performance was especially unfortunate in view of the fact that 25,000,000 people watched the hout on television, while only 25,000 were in attendance at yankee Stadium, the scene of the fight...
...bill establishing a federal university to train men for government service has been introduced in the 81st Congress. Its sponsor, Representative Charles E. Bennett (D-Fla.), admits that the bill has almost no chance of passage in view of the many other demands on Congress for money...