Word: bostons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writes Harold on a sheet of yellow paper, belongs to the night and together they conspire against Boston. They live illicitly, caress each other with streetlamps and shadows and juke box symphonies, the soft sob of loss, the subway shudder and the sigh. Night warms its black limbs by the gutter fires and furnace spit. We should bottle the night, prone and passive, siphon it into leather canteen flasks, take swigs of it while sunning ourselves by the river, savour it after a French loave-lunch, rub it on our arm in lieu of excrement...
...poetry readings will be presented in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. on July 22 and 31. Reading in the first series will be delivered by William Alfred, assistant professor of English and of General Education, and Robert Lowell, lecturer on English at Boston University...
July 6, Rev. Richard Unsworth, Chaplain, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; July 13, Dr. Krister Stendahl, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.; July 20, Rev. Dana McLean Greeley, President American Unitarian Association, Boston, Mass.; July 27, Rev. William H. Watson, Congregational Union, England; August 3, Rev. Robert C. Dodds, Second Congregational Church, Waterbury, Conn.; August 10, Rev. Harry Kruener, Dean of the Chapel, Denison University, Granville, Ohio; August 17, Rev. Jonathan N. Mitchell, Episcopal Chaplain, University of New Hampshire, Durham...
Closer to the Square, however, is the Boston Summer Theatre, at New England Mutual Hall. Opening July 7 with Bert Lahr in Visit to a Small Planet, the Summer Theatre will also present James Mason in Mid-Summer (July 14-19); Basil Rathbone and Geraldine Page in Separate Tables (July 21-26); Tonight at 8:30, with Faye Emerson (July 28-Aug. 2); Hal March in A Hole in the Head (Aug. 4-9); Dulcy, with Dody Goodman (Aug. 11-16); and Melvyn Douglas in Strange Partners, a new play by Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke...
...musical side, there is the always popular and rewarding Berkshire Music Festival at Lenox. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch and Pierre Monteux, will perform with other musical groups, including the Berkshire Music Center Orchestra and the Tanglewood Choir...