Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In heralding the inauguration at Radcliffe and Harvard of "the full program of General Education," he praised the results of six years of experimentation in achieving a "balance between liberality and specialty."
He was referring to the letter from Rome sent to Archbishop Cushing on September 6, which dealt with the current doctrinal controversy between the Center and the archdiocese. He said "this was the only clear statement in the message." He went on to say, "What we now have to do...
Least successful of the "Quartet," "The Kite" indulges in some contrived symbolism to point up the struggle between a mother and wife for a young man's affections. The acting of the mother is exceptionally good but once again the author descends to the maudlin to close his story and...
"The Browning Version," which opens the evening, seemed to me the more successful of the two. It is a very interesting, if leisurely paced show, with deft touches of understated humor and sensitivity. Evans plays an austere and reserved master of the Classics in an English public school--"the Himmel...
The title of the second offering, a farce called "Harlequenade," seems to derive from the plays done by the Commedia del Arts in 13-15th century Italy. The actors then had no scripts, but improvised from a stock situation. An analogy would hold between one of these situations and...