Word: archibald
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointed in your Dec. 22 articles on Archibald MacLeish's J.B. He is right in claiming that the God of Job is closer to this generation than any other. The world is not what we naively wish it were. Man should not have the feeling "that life owes him something . . ." When we begin to see that things no longer obey our wishes, we are matured. This is the answer of the Lord from the whirlwind...
...often that a Broadway play elicits raves from all the New York daily newspaper critics. But this is what happened to Archibald MacLeish's J.B. when the strike-bound reviewers were finally able to make their verdicts known after the December 11 opening at the ANTA Theatre...
Inside Criticism. Standards at Carleton are high; each student must take at least two years of English, science and foreign language. There are no soft majors; in mathematics, chemistry and biology, outstanding students do original research. Yet President Gould is a scientist who quotes from Archibald MacLeish's J.B. without making it appear a stunt, and the humanities at Carleton-particularly English, music and history-are if anything better than the sciences...
...pools, Tammy went to New York, studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and spent two years playing in somber epics, including Mourning Becomes Electra. TV and a few other acting bits kept Tammy going until 1954, when she met and later married Canada-born Actor Christopher Plummer, now starring in Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. At the time, Tammy was working in the box office at the Westport (Conn.) Playhouse. "They fired me," she says, "because I lost them $500 giving away free passes." (The habit still afflicts her. At the Downstairs she is apt to answer the telephone outside...
...Archibald Lee Moore, who now claims to be 49, it was the 127th knockout of his career-a record surpassing the mark set by Young Stribling back...