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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Emily Dickinson lived, in the words of Conrad Aiken, "a life perfectly devoid of outward event," there was one great mystery about her. To an even greater degree than was common among New England mystics, she was a recluse. This, according to the most popular, though by no means...

Author: By John Kasdan, | Title: 'Alison's House' at Tufts | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

Once again, most of the blame can be deposited on the front lawn of director Frank B. Hanson. Tufts has an extremely unusual stage. The audience completely surrounds the stage area, sort of in the style of a diminished Yale Bowl. Further, there are very few rows of seats, so...

Author: By John Kasdan, | Title: 'Alison's House' at Tufts | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

The high point was perhaps the solo piano presentation of the slow movement theme. The melody is the simplest series of conjunct scale fragments, but so tellingly contoured that in the hands of a great artist it emerges as one of the most ineffably seraphic passages in all music. It...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Hamden Trio's Beethoven, Brahms Constitute Excellent Music-Making | 7/16/1959 | See Source »

Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Pete's heart should be in this, since it is a girl friend of his girl friend who seems to be finding all the trouble.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, by Simone de Beauvoir. An all-but-Proustian remembrance of things past, when the future queen of existentialism was a proper, fretful and insomniac student princess.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jul. 13, 1959 | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

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