Word: bettering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...justify his updating, Kahn points Shakespeare's "Fantastic innovation," and asserts that production today should similarly "surprise, delight and astonish our audience." But Shakespeare was not a revolutionary. His plays impressed the Globe Theatre's audiences not because they were particularly avant-garde but simply because they generally were better than those written by anybody else. Kahn also states that one must be "true to the play," but it seems to me that, in this production, he has done quite the opposite...
...whole, the quality of elocution in this production is better than what the Festival has usually offered in the past. The main burden falls of course on the title role, taken here by Len Cariou, a newcomer to the Festival. Given the concept Kahn has foisted on him, he acquits himself surprisingly well. He is obviously a well-trained classical actor, and his performance at times suggests a young Alec Guinness. The Festival has made a lucky catch...
There is no better way to spend your first day at Harvard than to get away from the Square, and one of the most intriguing and profitable places to go is to Boston's own thoroughbred race track, Suffolk Downs...
Today Abstract Expressionists enjoy the status, both esthetic and financial, of old masters. And like old masters, they have been declared dead by the brashest of the avantgarde. But they changed the course of art. Whether for better or worse is arguable; that they did, is incontestable...
...Washington, Treasury Secretary David Kennedy sent a long-distance rebuke to some of the bankers, who had been talking freely in Copenhagen about ordering still another rise in the prime rate. Kennedy defended the latest increase but told bankers that in the future they had better "find other methods to make those difficult credit-allocation decisions." The clear warning from Treasury: No more increases. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board is considering telling U.S. bankers to "voluntarily" limit their loans to the total that they now have outstanding...