Word: alston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...director must force these speakers to understate, and must impose evenness and unity upon them. Instead, Corum has allowed the tempters to act as individuals who have personalities of their own instead of intellectual pawns who play Eliot's spiritual game. Only Richard Silberg remains impersonally persuasive; Philip Alston Stone, Stephen Kennedy, and Andreas Teuber have created personalities for themselves (in Teuber's case, and Eliot's lines do not make such a transformation possible, and he resorts to wringing his hands and throwing his body about...
...develop his budding talent. "Most kids,'' says Lawrence of his boyhood, "draw and paint and write poetry - I simply never stopped." In Harlem he spent hours making actors' masks and tiny stage sets, and he began working with the Negro artist Charles Alston. Like many of his generation, he was able to stick to his painting by getting on the Federal Art Project during the Depression. He chose to work not in oil but in gouache, later switched to egg tempera, "a brisk medium that cannot be manipulated like oil. You have to get it all right...
...make a point of coddling their young. Time was when major-league rookies grew so tense under the pressure that Baltimore Manager Paul Richards can recall one shortstop who fell in a dead faint when a ball came his way. But at the Dodgers' training camp, Manager Walter Alston confines his criticism of Howard to such laconic reproaches as, "Wait until you see the ball before you swing." Shrugs hard-bitten Veteran Outfielder Carl Furillo: "Now it's all brotherly love with the Dodgers. I've got to pat the head of some goddam busher...