Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Show business is the common-and uncommonly interesting-denominator of the immortal and the merely diverting, the sublime and the corny, the Greek amphitheater and the burlesque runway. It includes Bernard Shaw and the TV gag writer, Laurence Olivier and the Las Vegas chorus girl -as well as their audiences. TIME'S new section will report "Show Biz" in all its phases. It will include news, trends and personalities of movies, theater, television, nightclubs, pop music. It will report on the more offbeat corners such as carnivals and beauty contests. And it will cover the vast supporting cast...
...Common Concept. Larson's plan of action in his new job has both an immediate and long-range focus. For example, he believes that something should be done soon to show how the World Court can be employed to settle claims in international trade and investment, thus providing a sure remedy for either nations or investors who think they have been wronged-to the ultimate benefit of world trade and investment. On another tack he wants to study the comparative law of all nations to see where the common denominator might lie for progress toward a world rule...
...common concept of civilized peoples, a largely untapped reservoir of possible common understanding." said he. "Our big problem is getting it down out of the stratosphere to the level of something reasonably practical...
...Exit deals in despair--the existentialist brand of despair which employs an infanticide, a lesbian, and a coward as its protagonists; a despair which isn't any more tragic than it is didactic, and yet is great art. The dilemma of the common death sentence, hackneyed at the hands of philosophy professors, is moving as the instrument of good acting and directing...
...first show was finally given in Christ Church auditorium, and the next was presented in a common room of the Harvard Union, in the round, an approach that has not been used lately in Cambridge. The experiment has proved successful and we hope that more plays in this form will be seen in the future...