Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small part of Kimball's success (and a potent budget-balancing aid) is his ability to find eager, knowing young assistants who work hard for small pay. Several of his curators-Henry Plumer Mcllhenny, Henry Clifford, Boies Penrose -are so well off that Kimball affectionately calls them "my millionaires." Down into their pockets dig these three for many of the museum's top-flight special exhibitions. Even more significant is a growing list of "my young men" who now head important U. S. museums and got their first museum training under Kimball at Philadelphia. Some of them: Director...
Night Music (by Clifford Odets; produced by The Group Theatre). Clifford Odets, of all people, has suddenly decided that life's a pretty swell thing. He used to be grimly up on the barricades; in Night Music he gaily rides a carrousel. He used to pump lead into Old Glory; in Night Music he almost gets round to waving her. His tortured characters used to writhe-extremely vocally-in their separate hells; in Night Music, Boy Meets Girl and ends up clasping her in his arms...
...plays, "Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odets and "The Fall of the City" by Archibald MacLeish, have been chosen for production by the Student Union Dramatic Club, it was revealed yesterday by John Holabird, '42, Chairman of the Dramatic Club Committee...
Against old (62) Tom Collier were two other negligible independents and Mr.Crump's brassy, psalm-singing Police Commissioner Clifford Davis. The vote: Tom Collier, 520; Clifford Davis, 30,300.Declared beaten but unbowed Tom Collier on election night : "If the people of Mem phis want to remain cowed and contented, that's their business - but I won't. I'll be in there fighting again...
...Although Clifford Odets's "Night Music" echoes with protest, this time neither capitalist system nor class is the object of attack. Odets has taken in a far larger scope; his newest play concerns the struggle of the individual with a world that is constantly oppressive. Exuberant and brash, it criticizes the contemporary "wasteland" and glorifies a life in which human nature runs free. For Odets the answer lies in youth with its comic overtones and serious ideals. It is a play tempered with bitterness but full of hope...