Word: babe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly see the seam between the set and music and the rest of the show, so perfectly do they mesh. For Thomas Babe has forged a magnificent Trojan Women out of many disparate elements--Greek theatre, American language, rock and roll music...
Finally, this is a marvelous cast. Stephen Kaplan is all that an Aristophanesean leading clown should be--self-important, close to the earth, and terribly funny. Tom Babe adds a great deal of skill to a natural talent for comedy, and Dan Deitch gracefully fills the none-too-easy assignment of playing a god who is also a heavy. The chorus, led by Susan Channing, is not, like most Greek choruses, self-conscious and uncomfortably out of place, but perfectly at ease as it stands around the stage reciting, or lounges in the front row of the auditorium. And Lloyd...
...style, as he says, "grew out of me as a tree grows." Born to Armenian immigrants on Long Island, Nakian studied during World War I with Manhattan's Sculptor Paul Manship. By the 1930s, he had won some renown for his idealized, 8-ft.-tall statue of Babe Ruth, his heroic busts of F.D.R., Cordell Hull and other demigods of the New Deal. In the 1940s, he moved on to more remote Greco-Roman themes, explaining that "myths are good because they give you form and a grand story. I don't want only form; I want philosophy...
Today the big-time games and the best pros are well-known at every wide spot in the road that boasts a TV receiver. And television has done more than merely educate the fan; it has improved the player. Babe Ruth may have been a hero to kids who never saw the inside of Yankee Stadium, but most of those kids never saw the Babe. Today, youngsters anywhere in the U.S. can see their heroes, watch them play, and copy their style. "Television," says University of Florida Football Coach Ray Graves, "is the best teaching aid any coach could have...
...Babe Ruth (714), Willie Mays (547), Jimmy Foxx (534), Ted Williams...