Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, that is what the people at Blood are working on right now. They are cutting, sharpening and editing. Many of the sketches have good central jokes that never quite make it in the execution (such as an ambiguous Edward Albee parody), and others need to be thrown out entirely...
Skillfully, the author does show how the humble Drosophila led Haldane to what may be considered the central drama of his life. He was one of the last of the hard-core Stalinists in the Western intellectual community-a genuine holdover from the liberal-Communist marriage of the '30s. During the Civil War, he went to Spain as to a shrine. He closed his eyes to the horrors of Stalin's purges, shrugged off the Hitler-Stalin pact. Unused to the logic of the world, he failed to draw the conclusions that occurred to less talented...
...major difficulty with the play is that the central character, who supposedly takes up where Mother Courage left off, is miscast. Emme Davidson is simply too healthy for the role. Wrapped in black, reclining on a couch, and sentenced to deliver her lines in a self-righteous singsong, she's like Truman Capote in drag. Well, let's just say Truman Capote period, and leave it at that...
...DUNSTER House Dramatic Erection group, formed last year, rivalled the Mayer one for cohesion, although it had an altogether different approach. Instead of having a central figure and a one-Production-at-a-time commitment, it was a group made up only of techies who enjoyed working together and would run off to save any show that needed saving...
...permanent, central theatrical unit of Harvard theatre, it is the Loeb that people identify with cliques--the "Loebies." But it's difficult right now to detect any groups there that are solid enough to merit the term...