Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soloists include George Kirklin '59, Samuel Kim '58, and Edward Martin '60. Conductor of the Summer Band, which is in its first season, is Bernard Wiseblatt '57. In the event of rain the concert will be held in Sanders Theatre...
...Bernard Shaw's "three-ring circus," as H. L. Mencken called Man and Superman, "with Ibsen doing running high jumps; Schopenhauer playing the Calliope and Nietzsche selling peanuts in the reserved seats," runs a paltry three hours and fifteen minutes in its deft and buoyant revival by the Group 20 Players. In order to make this enormous masterwork fit such a brief compass, the usual expedient is to cut the dream scene in hell, a glorious ideological quartet for voices, specifically designed by the author as a detachable interlude. The reigning powers at Group 20 have decided to leave...
...Trib last summer, Whitney had been scouring the nation for a man to replace Ogden ("Brownie") Reid, whose family had owned the paper since the death of Founder Horace Greeley in 1872. Whitney's lieutenants consulted the roster of U.S. press bigwigs, invited suggestions from such publishers as Bernard Kilgore of the Wall Street Journal and John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune. Whitney was politely turned down by several nominees, e.g., Executive Editor Lee Hills of John S. Knight's Detroit Free Press, and turned down several himself after close examination. A newcomer to newspapering, Whitney...
...first time since 1951, a band is a feature of Harvard Summer School life. Directed by Bernard Wiseblatt, the Summer Band has tentatively scheduled two concerts: a program of classical works for band, and a pops concert...
...ending of The Lesson contains one of the great stage directions of all time: The professor "finds a big knife, invisible or real according to the preference of the director." Director Bernard Shaktman took the invisible knife, but that still did not justify the professor's leaning...