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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston newspaper ran a vast headline which declared, "KILLIAN APPOINTED MISSILES CZAR." While Killian is an adviser of some sort, he is certainly not a missile czar. Nor, for that matter, is William Holaday, special assistant on guided missiles to the Secretary of Defense, a missile-czar. At best, Holaday represents an attempt to cut down on bureaucracy by adding another bureau-crat. Neither he nor Killian can do anything more than advise the already over-advised men who created the present system of rivalries, inefficiencies, and unnecessary secrecies...
...records: Leadbelly's Mary Don't You Weep, Gary Davis's Wreck of the 97, or Lee Payant's Big Rock Candy Mountain. In a sense, Seeger is joining battle with all of his competitors at the same time; it is not surprising that he often comes off second best...
...graduate students," states Shaplin, "have a hypercritical attitude towards school. Most of them have gone through pretty rigorous educational competition, and they want to avoid this for their kids. There is a terrifically protective atmosphere in this regard, for they want their children to go to nothing but the best...
Miss Julie is a more painful subject to approach than its predecessor on the program. Although justly evaluated as one of the landmarks of the naturalistic theater, the play today is still--even in the best of performances--something of a bore. Written in 1888, the play illustrates the conflict between a declining aristocracy and a rising middle class by focusing on the story of a valet in a decadent Swedish noble household who seduces--or, more properly, is seduced by--the daughter of the house. Appalled at what she has done, the weak-willed Miss Julie maneuvers the valet...
...shortcomings of the present Leverett House presentation are all much easier to pin down than its virtues. The fact remains that The Questioning of Nick is excellent, and that the evening as a whole emerges as far and away the best theater Leverett House has produced...