Word: butlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ballet Theatre new works, Swedish Choreographer Birgit Cullberg's Miss Julie was an unqualified success. Long popular in Europe, Miss Julie sticks closely to August Strindberg's savage little drama of the same name about a neurotic, highly sexed "half-woman" who seduces her family's butler during a wild celebration of Midsummer Eve. Shamed by the images of her aristocratic ancestors, she forces him to kill her. (In the original she commits suicide.) Danced by Violette Verdy and Erik Bruhn, it successfully translated the purely psychological tensions of the original into movement that was both meaningful...
...known about Kamp's background-although any newspaper reader would remember his association with Gerald B. Winrod, Gerald L.K. Smith et al. It was left to Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to make the political riposte. Said he. in reply to a telegram from Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler: "I think you realize, Paul, that neither you nor I can control the utterances or writings of an Eastland, a Faubus, or a Kamp...
...last general argument," he goes on, and "if I were choosing, it would be decisive ... It is simply that here we know our audience. In America the writers don't really know whom they are writing for-apart from their fellow writer-scholars." In England, "Mr. Macmillan, Mr. Butler, Mr. Gaitskell are all deeply read men, interested in contemporary work; so are a good sprinkling of other members of the House. That would also be true of a surprisingly high proportion of civil servants and miscellaneous administrative bosses ... Do American politicians, civil servants, schoolteachers read as ours...
Standing before the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court last week, Lawyer Richard C. Butler, counsel for Little Rock's board of education, tried hard to make clear the board's plea for a postponement of integration at Little Rock's Central High School. The board, Butler said, was "placed between the millstones [of] two sovereignties"-the Federal Government and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. If law and order had broken down in Little Rock, Butler submitted, that was not the fault of the school board, which had labored to make integration work. The board...
...amazing freshness and vitality. The most striking feature of this production was a complete stylistic consistency, which is the hardest virtue to achieve in a period piece like this. With one exception, every member of the cast down to the tripping maid (Moira Wylie '60) and whirl-wind butler (Robert Jordan '59) captured the proper unified style in both word and gesture...