Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other officers elected for next year are: Bernard E. Kreger '59, vice-president, and Arthur N. Fitts III '59, secretary...
Jerome Kilty's "Play for Two Voices" is composed of excerpts from the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, eked out with scenes from Pygmalion and The Apple Cart, and some connective matter by Mr. Kilty. Shaw's letters are as witty as his plays, and Mrs. Campbell was in every way a match for him. Their letters are full of delicate shades of feeling and redolent of two strikingly original personalities. Dear Liar may not be really a play, but it is certainly a pleasure...
...invading import. There are gags for every occasion. At the sight of a new 1958, the sidewalk humorists are solemnly asking, "Where do you put in the nickel to make it light up and play?" To Detroit, all this is as shocking as if a Saint Bernard had bitten a lost missionary. "This," said Ford Stylist George W. Walker sadly, "is 'Hate-Autos Year...
...MAGIC BARREL (214 pp.)-Bernard Malamud-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...once the Old Man's legs were locked about his neck, Sindbad seemed doomed to carry his burden forever. This theme, that one good turn deserves another, and another and another, runs like a magic thread through nearly half the 13 short stories in this new book by Bernard Malamud, 44, an assistant professor of English at Oregon State College whose The Assistant (TIME, April 29, 1957) was one of the best of last year's U.S. novels...