Word: classics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Diaries. At his trial, Casement seemed to one observer "by far the noblest man in court, and the happiest." George Bernard Shaw supplied a plan for the defense; but it was refused by Casement, who made a ringing speech from the dock that compares favorably with the classic delivered by Robert Emmet in similar circumstances...
...PEACE. Despite the difficulty of shrinking an oak back into an acorn, this Phoenix Theater production of the mammoth Tolstoy classic is surprisingly dramatic. In this play, and in an alternate offering, Man and Superman, individual acting egos are submerged in beautiful ensemble playing...
TARTUFFE. Moliere's humor and intent were more bitter than the Lincoln Center company's farcical interpretation of this classic comedy implies. But Michael O'Sullivan's hypocritical misanthrope is a superbly drawn character...
...placate a free-spending drunk bellowing requests from the bar. In 1943 he recorded his first vocal number, Straighten Up and Fly Right, which flew right up the bestseller charts. He followed in 1946 with The Christmas Song ("Chestnuts roasting on an open fire . . ."), which became an alltime Yule classic...
...creative association" with Poet Carl Sandburg, Stevens and Co-Author James Lee Barrett begat a script based loosely on Fulton Oursler's bestseller, on the Old and New Testament, and on other writings ancient and modern. His goal, Stevens proclaimed, was to create a definitive biography, "a Biblical classic that has vigor in ideas-with no souped-up spectacles, no sword fights, no bacchanalian orgies...