Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over ABC, was yes. In an uninterrupted hour and five minutes of clean-plucked verse and smoothly paced action, Producer Robert Saudek and Director Alan Schneider demonstrated that television can carry art into the living room and be at home there without touching forelock or shuffling in embarrassment. Drama Critic Walter Kerr condensed the Dudley Fitts-Robert Fitzgerald translation without wounding it. The cast was competent at worst, and particularly fortunate in having Robert Goodier as Creon. And as should be, the hero was Oedipus. Canada's young (27) Christopher Plummer was a kingly king-handsome in bearing, condescending...
Last fall, the Drama Group presented Oedipus Rex and The Critic; Hal Scott played the lead and D.J. Sullivan directed...
...motives and gives weight to his words. Says Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "Any time Bill Knowland tells you something, you can believe it." In 1949 Knowland voted against the confirmation of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State in the Truman Administration, and he was the leading Senate critic of Acheson's Far Eastern policies. But he did not hesitate to stand on the Senate floor and pay tribute to Acheson's handling of the Japanese peace treaty. When Harry Truman was subjected to a below-the-belt attack by Idaho's pink-tinged Democratic Senator Glen...
...hope the thought of it isn't spoiling his golf game this week on the Augusta golf course where America's Government now seems to be permanently established." Liberal, Laborite and independent newspapers kept up their strong support of the U.S.; the influential Observer, a bitter critic of Britain's Suez venture, printed a dispatch from its Washington correspondent: "Suddenly, American intentions in the Middle East have taken on a creative, independent and positive...
...Critic. In Los Angeles, police looked for the thief who walked up to a movie house, poked a pistol at Theater Cashier Kay Lee Stafford, said: "I didn't like the movie. Give me everybody's money back," and walked off with...