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...satirized--and yet subtle enough to reveal nuances of personality. Shaw's characters are complex creations. They discover and reveal unpleasant truths about themselves, as when the minister's wife Judith finds herself falling in love with Dick, the dashing reprobate. Several times in the first two acts, Director Clayton Koelb sacrifices subtlety to mere farce. For example, Dick's younger brother, Charles Degleman is so completely--if amusingly--idiotic that it is hard to remember that he is considered the "good" brother of the family...

Author: By Heather J. Dubrow, | Title: The Devil's Disciple | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...Adam Clayton Powell (D.N.Y.) has cancelled his appearance scheduled here for Jan. 10, Burt Ross '65, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats, announced yesterday. At the same time, Ross revealed that Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown of California would speak to the club...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Rep. Powell Cancels Talk; Brown Slated | 12/18/1963 | See Source »

...REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The temper of the Harlem Negro is examined through some of his leaders. Participants include Malcolm X, Harlem leader of the Black Muslims; Representative Adam Clayton Powell; and Whitney Young Jr., national executive director of the Urban League...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Harlem's controversial clergyman-congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., has agreed to appear at Harvard early next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Powell Will Speak Here in January | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...York's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church, walked jauntily away from the Sunday service. Then he spotted a CBS mobile television unit taping reactions to the death of President Kennedy. Never anx ious to avoid exposure, Powell rushed over to shake hands and offer his own comments on the assassination. To his surprise, he wound up the final hand shake holding not a microphone but a summons to appear in criminal court. A process server, sure that a shot at publicity would lure the Congressman, had quietly joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgments: Collecting the Winnings | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

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