Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS is an adaptation by Bernard Miles of Henry Fielding's Rape Upon Rape, a ribald comedy about a corrupt magistrate whose target is damsels in distress. As was the custom of the period, the rapes will not be performed onstage. Music is by Laurie Johnson, lyrics by Lionel Bart, and Murray Matheson, Larry Kert and Travis Hudson star. East Haddam, Conn. Through...
...Somebody," George Bernard Shaw once said, "must take the Garden of Eden in hand and weed it properly." Obviously, the man that Shaw had in mind for the job was himself. In Back to Methuselah, his five-play cycle completed in 1921, he tried to settle once and for all the meaning of creation ac cording to the Shavian doctrine of creative evolution. Written when he was 65 and for once heedless of commercial practicalities, the drama is frankly intended as his philosophical summa. Unfortunately, as a new London production by Britain's National Theater makes clear...
...rococo and frequently incoherent gangster yarn extracted like a rotten tooth from an old Harold Robbins novel. Stiletto seems to have been written only to take a share of the profits made by such stylish thrillers as Point Blank and Bullitt. And it quickly becomes obvious that Director Bernard Kowalski (who also made Krakatoa, East of Java) is not up to that sort of competition. Judged on sheer acting talent, however, Wiseman and O'Neal are equal to almost anything...
...called on Sir Bernard Lovell, director of the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station in England and one of the world's foremost authorities on astronomy, for a live interview feature. And while ABC might have 2001 film clips for its viewers, CBS planned to have 2001 's author, Arthur Clarke, on hand, along with Sir Francis Chichester, Buster Crabbe (Buck Rogers) and Buckminster Fuller...
...symposium could be described as the first translation into software of the sensitivity training advocated by California's Esalen Institute (TIME, Sept. 29, 1967). Esalen's associate Bernard Gunther was there to give the effort his wholehearted approval. "The increasing promiscuity and need for drugs are manifestations of touch hunger," he said. "We have lost our sensory innocence. You rarely touch somebody in this culture unless you want to make it with them." Nevertheless, Gunther insisted that touch does not necessarily have anything to do with sexuality...