Word: carleton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intermission of the Winthrop House dance after the UMass game last fall, Holly Carleton '59 was chosen Miss Radcliffe from a group of five finalists including Anne Baker, Elizabeth Borden, Cynthia Carmichael, and Mary Lou Severa...
...Newport-to-Bermuda race (on corrected time) by 11¼ minutes, the smallest yacht ever to win the Atlantic classic. It had been a rough, squally passage for the record field of 89 boats, and one had even gone down on a Bermuda reef. But Finisterre's owner, Carleton Mitchell, a wealth-upholstered free-lance writer and photographer, had hardly minded. Said he: "Really, it was a wonderful race. We had terrific meals, and outside of creature discomforts like water running down your neck to your navel, it was just swell...
...golden age on Morningside Heights. There was the vigorous historian, Carleton Hayes, F.J. E. Woodbridge with his "angry impersonations of the world's philosophers," John Dewey with his "bagpipe drone," John Erskine with his "princely introductions to the poets"-as well as a cluster of such talented younger men as Mark Van Doren, Mortimer Adler and Irwin Edman. To help pay his bills, Barzun and some friends ran a "perfectly legal and honest tutoring mill" called Ghosts Inc. "No subjects were barred. If a retired minister came who wanted to read Hamlet in Esperanto (one did), we supplied...
Maintaining a constant stream of cleverly humerous remarks varying from Boston's Ritz Carleton to the foibles of his native upper South, not to be confused, he said, with the deep South, Brown focused his immense historical and literary knowledge on the problem of today's theatre...
...cast at the beginning are often facetious and sometimes excruciatingly funny. After the introduction, however, the players settle down in their roles, and though they never lose spontaneity, they appear to hack around much less. The development of the story, written by Arlene Grimes, Jake Severance, and Mary Carleton, is conventional, but Earle Edgerton's staging shows several imaginative touches. The songs are never really captivating, except for "You Gotta Work for Your Wishes," and "Flowers Are Dancing A Minuet," the theme-song finale which the Children's Theatre has used for its last three shows...