Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway, is powerfully effected. The full plight of a doctor who discovers the town's health baths to be polluted, is relentlessly revealed in successive episodes from the time his brother, the mayor, first suggests that he is a "traitor to society." At the end of the second act a tremendous and truly exciting feeling of futility engulfs the viewer as the doctor attempts to explain the danger and his own remedial plan to a mass meeting where his audience is stacked against him. Agitators, who sit among the theatre audience, usurp control of the doctor's meeting. Fearing...
...question of a referendum, than on NSA itself. Abraham F. Lowenthal '61 argued that there was no need for a referendum "on a question which the students find quite dull," while Edward A. Segal '60 asserted that the Council, being more aware of NSA's activities, should act as a representative body and make its own decision...
...strongly worded report to be presented at tonight's Council meeting, the committee has registered objections to both the loyalty oath and the disclaimer affidavit of the National Defense Education Act. To date, University officials have criticized only the affidavit and have tended to dismiss the loyalty oath as innocuous...
Using one or three-act plays as a foundation, Aaron intends to discuss problems in preparation of scripts, casting, rehearsal techniques, and other problems in directing. He hopes to find five or six actors who will be "guinea pigs" for the prospective directors...
These non-realistic devices are the key to the success of a play that in the reading registers as an honestly told but unexciting story about ordinary people. They more than compensate for the slight drop in interest during part of the first act, and for the scattered signs of the pseudo-lyricism and pretentiousness that are so annoying in some of Mr. Williams' later plays. It is a rare experience for me to come out of a theatre changed, deeply respectful of the total effort I came to see and of all those who created it. If my gratitude...