Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hart Crane Biographer Brom Weber and Critic-Short Story Writer William Van O'Connor. Music has avant-garde Composer Larry Austin, protege of Darius Milhaud. Painters Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Petersen help make Davis tops in art among Cal campuses. Drama boasts talented young acting students with a beard or two, and this year's visiting lecturer, Director Joseph Schildkraut, has already staged an excellent Peer Gynt. Symbolic of the times, the old Davis livestock judging barn is being remodeled as a Shakespearean theater...
...They aren't, for Barend fails to communicate; his delivery is slurred and his funny lines dribble out like sap from a rubber tree. He plays a weak foil to a fine supporting cast, and is nearly forgotten in his scenes with Jean, Daisy, and M. Dudard (James Beard). Barend even spoils Ionesco's counterpoint in the first act, where lines, roles, and arguments flow from one character to another in a masterpiece of confusion...
Sandra has other ideas. She goes off to college and sings folk songs in "a place where everybody has a beard except one or two of the girls." Father rushes to the rescue, gets caught in a culture riot inspired by Tropic of Cancer, winds up with his name on the front page (LAWYER BATTLES COPS FOR DIRTY BOOKS) and his daughter kicked out of school. Sandra then shoots off to Paris to study painting, and gets a portrait of herself reprinted in LIFE-a portrait with five cubistic breasts. Father rushes to the rescue, steps innocently into a maison...
...most effective works place bas-relief figures carved in red clay on a tile background. In the "Virgin Spring," the distorted angles and sharp indentations of the man's face suggest his cruelty; the girl's expression seems both fearful and frightening. The even ridges in the forehead, beard, and robe of "The Scholar" contribute to the peaceful mood of this work...
Tennessee Williams has his doubts. He hustled down to Puerto Vallarta last month to try to talk Huston out of using a Happy Ending. But Huston is obstinate, so Williams grew a beard and tried to keep cool by going swimming in the luke waters with Taylor and Burton. Tennessee wears a bathing cap and Elizabeth does...