Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...council also pointed out that since May, 1950, it had refused the use of campuses to persons under indictment for any reason or awaiting appeal, and that "we are now of one mind in refusing to extend campus courtesies to persons convicted under the Smith Act...
...final non-Kaye act is put on by a skilled ventriloquist with three or four voices, who is a more polished vaudeville star than any of the others. He lasts until about...
...even more furious at the floor. They clatter and glare, brandishing boots, tight pants, short jackets, scowls, and women. They seem to be fairly intact imports of the gypsy dancers who currently perform for American tourists in Spain, and for all their energy they are a typically tired vaudeville act...
...less were the details, at least, freshly observed and the detours more rewarding. But A Hole in the Head has studied human reactions far too little and audience responses far too much: it goes for its laughs to what has many times been laughed at. and in the very act of milking the comic side of Jewish family life, sadly waters it down. Schulman belongs, in fact, to the two-faucet school of playwriting: what's not comedy is sentiment. And at the end, anything knotty or disconcerting just goes down the drain: Pop may play fast and loose...
...second act the plot, the actors, and to some extent the music warmed up. Herbert Parsons as a proper professor was a charming satirist as he sang of the professor's duty to learn, not teach. As his lonely man, Duane Murner gave one of the few professional performances of the evening with "Section Man's Lament...