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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarran-Walter Immigration Act is a "blind" and "immature" reenactment of an anachronistic 1924 law, Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law charged last night, speaking before the Harvard-Radcliffe Society for Minority Rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jaffe Hits McCarran Act Quotas, Suggests Revised Immigration Law | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

...many criticisms of the McCarran Act, one of the most important is the fact that this bill "is not really our immigration policy; it just appears to be," Jaffe said. Since 1948, some 600,000 refugees have entered this country, he pointed out. Many of these were in special relief quotas outside the national limits set up by the McCarran Act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jaffe Hits McCarran Act Quotas, Suggests Revised Immigration Law | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

Only toward the end of the second act does Mrs. Alving's character begin to evolve. Goaded by Parson Manders, she tells of her life with her husband. The third act includes some exquisitely written dramatic moments, as Mrs. Alving learns of her son's disease and Osvald (who has always lived away from home) of his father's profligacy...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Ghosts | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

...other major performers are mostly wooden or inconsistent. In the first act, Daniel Markowich (Osvald Alving) fails to suggest any of the intense fear which must haunt him. After one convincing scene--when he tells of his disease--Markewich's performance again trails off until, toward the end, his hysteria occasionally appears a joke...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Ghosts | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

...direction is often contrived. Most of his characters, when they deliver long speeches, pace up and down the stage, following practically the same pattern. And the play is considerably dulled by Ziegler's fascination with the fjords (which look very much like the Swiss Alps.) In the first act, an audience sitting out behind the set would hear almost as much of the important dialogue as the group in the Lowell Dining Room...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Ghosts | 11/13/1959 | See Source »

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