In the 1950s, some of the well-known films with artistic sensibilities include La Strada ( 1954 ), a film about a young woman who is forced to go to work for a cruel and inhumane circus performer in order to support her family and eventually coming to terms with her situation, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet ( 1956 ), centering around family with a lack of faith amongst it but with a son who believes that he is Jesus Christ and convinced that he is capable of performing miracles, Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ), which deals with a prostitute's failed attempts to find love, and her suffering and rejections, and Wild Strawberries ( 1957 ), by Ingmar Bergman, whose narrative concerns an elderly medical doctor and professor whose nightmares lead him to re-evaluate his life, and The 400 Blows ( 1959 ) by François Truffaut, whose main character is a young man trying to come of age despite the abuse from his parents, schoolteachers, and society in general.

Crowther was an advocate of foreign-language films in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly those of Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ingmar Bergman, and Federico Fellini.

And when film arrived at a pinnacle of auteurism in the 1950s and ' 60s, aligning it with the earlier Modernist aesthetic, some of its most celebrated directors — Bergman, Fellini, Godard — turned naturally to Pierrot.

Bergman won an Oscar for Best Actress for her part, and film critic Michael Barson calls it Litvak's best film of the 1950s.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Korzybzki was well received in numerous disciplinary realms, as evidenced by the positive reactions from leading persons in the sciences and humanities in the 1940s and 1950s.

Angst was probably first discussed in relation to popular music in the mid-to late 1950s that was popular amongst the nuclear disarmament and antiwar protester subculture.

Bloch was shot by the Gestapo during the German occupation of France in World War II for his active membership of the French Resistance, and Febvre carried on the Annales approach in the 1940s and 1950s.

From the 1950s Federico Brito Figueroa was the founder of a new Venezuelan historiography based largely on the ideas of the Annales School.

ALGOL ( short for ALGOrithmic Language ) is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by the ACM, in textbooks, and academic works for the next 30 years and more.

Prior to the 1950s, Alberta was a primarily agricultural economy, based on the export of wheat, beef, and a few other commodities.

During the early 1950s the board was divided on whether to defend communists persecuted under McCarthyism.

By the 1950s, the development of civil jets grew, beginning with the de Havilland Comet, though the first widely-used passenger jet was the Boeing 707, because it was much more economical than other planes at the time.

The subspace radio, best known today from Star Trek and named for the method used in the series for achieving faster-than-light travel, was the most commonly used name for such a faster-than-light communicator in the science fiction of the 1930s to the 1950s.

During the late 1950s it was sought by two rail historians, George Horn and Martin Schachne, but they did not gain access to the tunnel itself.

The first commercial television systems were black-and-white ; The beginning of color television was in the 1950s.

The monochrome combinations still existing in the 1950s are standardized by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) as capital letters A through N. When color television was introduced, the hue and saturation information was added to the monochrome signals in a way that black & white televisions ignore.

The modern form of AAS was largely developed during the 1950s by a team of Australian chemists.

Electrothermal AAS ( ET AAS ) using graphite tube atomizers was pioneered by Boris V. L ’ vov at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, Russia, since the late 1950s, and further investigated by Hans Massmann at the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy ( ISAS ) in Dortmund, Germany.

The slate quarries on Craigmore which operated from the 1820s to the 1950s are now defunct ; at its peak this was a major industry.

Heschel was particularly spurned by his colleague Mordechai Kaplan, founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, and many students who attended JTS in the 1950s sympathized with Kaplan over Heschel.

A first generation of antipsychotics, known as typical antipsychotics, was discovered in the 1950s.

Most of the drugs in the second generation, known as atypical antipsychotics, have been developed more recently, although the first atypical antipsychotic, clozapine, was discovered in the 1950s and introduced clinically in the 1970s.

In the late 1950s the most widely used term was " neuroleptic ", followed by " major tranquilizer " and then " ataraxic ".

* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.

He was a liberal during the conservative 1950s, only to switch to conservative during the liberal, hippie-era 1960s.

) The last 1950s winner of Best Director to die was Delbert Mann ( won 1956, died 2007 ).

In the 1950s, Wise proved adept in several genres, from the science fiction of The Day the Earth Stood Still to the melodramatic So Big, to the 1954 boardroom drama Executive Suite, to the epic Helen of Troy based on Homer, to Susan Hayward's Oscar winner in I Want to Live !, for which he was nominated for Best Director.

Allen Dulles: Office of Strategic Services | OSS Swiss office in WWII ; Director of Central Intelligence | DCI in 1950s

The space race in the 1950s and 1960s led to the renaming of the museum to the National Air and Space Museum, and finally congressional passage of appropriations for the construction of the new exhibition hall, which opened July 1, 1976 at the height of the United States Bicentennial festivities under the leadership of Director Michael Collins, who had flown to the Moon on Apollo 11.

Grandson Charles P. Cabell became a four-star general in the United States Air Force as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence during the 1950s.

The BBC refused to perform it at the time because the soprano range was thought to go beyond the bounds of the possible, but the BBC was nevertheless the organization that gave first performances to many of her works from the 1940s to the 1950s, after which there was a tendency to ignore her until her friend William Glock became Director of Music.

Shersby qualified as a trained Conservative party agent during the 1950s and worked in that capacity in his early 20s for a number of years before then pursuing a career in the British industrial film industry between 1958 and 1966 and then subsequently between 1966 and 1988 he was Director General of the British Sugar Bureau, the trade association of the British sugar industry.

Known in Britain as the Fat Director or Fat Controller, he is always depicted wearing a top hat, a form of dress worn by senior railway employees until the late 1950s.

The critic Reyner Banham acted as assistant Director during the early 1950s, followed by Lawrence Alloway during the mid to later 1950s.

In the 1950s, Blatty worked as the public relations director at Loyola University of Los Angeles and as the Director of Publicity at the University of Southern California.

In the 1950s Richard Woolley, Director of Mount Stromlo Observatory from 1939 – 1956 and Astronomer Royal from 1956 – 1971, suggested constructing a large telescope in Australia.

Guardia uniforms underwent some changes in the 1950s and 1960s, with officers adopting the US M1942 light khaki service dress, comprising tunic, slacks and a matching peaked cap with brown-japanned chinstrap and peak, or black dress cap with gold chinstrap, black peak with gold leaf embroidery for field and general ranks ( the GN Chief Director had additional French-style embroidery on the cap band ), and silver triangular national cap badge.

During the 1950s, Sir Douglas was the Commander of the British Brigade, Commonwealth Division in the Korean War and General Officer Commanding and Director of Operations in Cyprus.

Also in the late 1950s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) had to finally admit that organized crime in America is real, because of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's embarrassment over the local law enforcement's uncovering of the 1957 Apalachin Meeting.

McCarthyism of the early 1950s, which included the speeches, investigations, and congressional hearings of Senator Joseph McCarthy ; the Hollywood blacklist, associated with hearings conducted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities ; and the various anti-communist activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) under Director J. Edgar Hoover.

In the early 1950s, Dr. Leslie Laking was appointed as Director and served until the early 1980s.

The Bronze Level syllabus for Western Swing included in the Dance Book written in the 1950s by Arthur Murray Dance Studios National Director, and Los Angeles basin resident, Lauré Haile, defined a " Coaster Step " as cross forward place, or back together side, or back forward back.

From May 2009 until August 2010, Edwards each week interviewed This I Believe, Inc .' s Executive Director Dan Gediman about a different episode of Murrow's 1950s radio series, which was then heard in its entirety.

Before joining the BBC early in the 1950s to work on live drama at Alexandra Palace, he spent over four years in ' weekly rep ' as Director / Theatre Manager at the Royalty Theatre, Morecambe.

* William Harding Jackson ( 1901 – 1971 ), Deputy Director of the CIA in the 1950s

In the 1950s, Goodman was Executive Director of Men's Work for the National Council of Churches in New York City and active in church work.

In the early 1950s, Graham, as NBC Art Director, hired a young Andy Warhol to do some of his first commercial works.