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...Pudding Theatricals explored the world of ancient Greece with its 161st show, “Acropolis Now,” a comical look at the first Olympics. For its 162nd production, HPT is transporting audiences back to another Greece—“Grease” of the 1950s??with its upcoming show, “Commie Dearest.”Written by Alexandra A. Petri ’10 and Megan L. Amram ’10—the team that also penned “Acropolis Now?...
This isn’t the first time that Tribe has gone public with his paintings. In the early 1950s??as a child in San Francisco—he won an art contest and received a bicycle as his prize. But rather than learn to ride the bike, Tribe sold it. It wasn’t until this summer that he moved past training wheels, finally learning “to ride a bike at the ripe...
...high school curricula. Critics may no longer find it as “trashy and vicious” as the Concord Library Committee so notoriously did (and the New York Times reported) in 1885, but many still echo the concerns about racism the NAACP first presented in the 1950s??particularly with respect to Huck’s traveling companion, the runaway slave...
...answer comes in the film’s immense modern relevance: while a few of the 1950s?? sillier notions of sexual behavior have been dispelled—largely because of Kinsey’s seminal study, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male—many continue to regard some natural sexual urges as immoral. Most recently, eleven states voted to ban gay marriage. For those to whom such reactions to homosexuality and bisexuality seem irrational, the film will resonate particularly deeply after the election led eleven states to ban gay marriage...
While Harvard’s leaders would not allow any communist faculty on campus—a virtual impossibility in the tense climate of the 1950s??they did pledge to safeguard the intellectual liberty of the University and supported a tenured professor who came under suspicion...