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...Memphis. Results were so impressive (2,000 illiterates learned to read and write in four months) that the lessons have been adapted with UNESCO aid for TV use in India, Africa and the Middle East. ¶for Courage. Dynamo behind this week's U.S. drive is bustling Mayes Behrman, 67, literacy director of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C., which teaches simple crafts to mountain people. Last year Behrman raised $16,000 to get WKNO's 98 lessons kinescoped, ran them over Charlotte's WBTV for 1,000 students. The 750 graduates, who proudly...
...script, written by Karl Tunberg, and touched up by S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal and Christopher Fry, is well ordered, and its lines sometimes sing with good rhetoric and quiet poetry. The actors, for the most part, play in the grand manner, but with controlled firmness. Actor Boyd carries off the prize with a virile portrayal of Messala, and Hugh...
Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: S. N. Behrman's Biography, with Faye Emerson...
Dennis, Mass., Cape Playhouse: S. N. Behrman's drawing-room comedy, Biography, with Faye Emerson...
Again, a preoccupation with subtle combinations of tone color informed the short piano pieces by Bertram Baldwin and David Behrman (a violin also entered Mr. Behrman's piece for a while). There were row structures, not so elaborate as Wolff's, but complicated enough to be hardly perceptible. The avant-garde leader Boulez would tell us that structure has gone underground. But does this subterreanean structure really give shape to a piece, or does it happen accidentally, or not at all? In a short composition like Baldwin's it is easier to give a sense of cohesiveness; this piece, rather...