Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief asset, its nimble wisecracking, is also a liability. For it impedes the farcical explosiveness needed for so plot-heavy a yarn, and-brash even where it is funny-the wisecracking prevents Reclining Figure from being elegant or urbane. Writing of 57th Street, Playwright Kurnitz has caught Broadway's tone while missing its tempo...
Blues, Ballads and Sin-Songs brought Libby Holman back to Broadway in a one-woman show. A quarter of a century after Body and Soul and Moanin' Low, Libby still looks youthful, her voice is still throaty and smoldering. Last week's music noticeably differed, however, from the songs the siren sang in The Little Show and Three's a Crowd; her present program-some of it suggesting what might be termed musical American primitives-sets her where the nightclub singer merges (or clashes) with the recitalist...
...piece." Why did she change to ballads? "The songs are much richer and deeper than smarty-pants Tin Pan Alley." The mixed critical opinion? "I never read the hatchetmen. You can't change what you're doing just because some people don't like it." From Broadway Libby will take Blues on a brief East Coast tour, then perhaps to India and Japan. "No retiring to a chicken farm for me," she says. "I'm going to keep on singing as long as I have a voice...
...ground. The farm land on which Lou Gehrig once awaited home runs now supports a small area of grass, the only campus the University can provide. It is about half the size of the Yard and is the most convenient method of distinguishing the University amid the Broadway traffic and tall buildings of that part of New York. The Bicentennial has been the cause for resodding the "campus" and including 116 Street in the job, for New York City sold the block of the noisy crowded street in front of Low Library to the University for the nominal...
Within earshot of the honking Broadway traffic amid skyscraper like dormitories, the Columbia student has listened to respected lecturers and continued to pursue his academic life while the Bicentennial office in Low Memorial Library planned ways to unite the world in a reaffirmation of the ideal of freedom of knowledge. The academic activity of the University for 1954 have been curiously distant from each other. Students, aside from two student government, staged conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences last Spring, have only really met the Bicentennial through reports of conferences in the Spectator...