Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embassy in Bonn is one of the most exacting and sensitive posts in the diplomatic service. The ambassador must function both as a striped-trousered forward observer, peering over the Iron Curtain, and, at the same time, as a soothing agent for West Germany's indomitable old (83) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. President Eisenhower's first choice to succeed retiring Ambassador David K. E. Bruce was Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy, the U.S.'s ablest diplomatic troubleshooter; Murphy bowed out in favor of retirement after 38 years in the Foreign Service (TIME, Nov. 9). Last week...
...Brigands of Lodi and The Dead Shot. Famed Actress Fanny Kemble appeared at the Varieties as Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals, but was so disturbed by the closeness of the audience that she never returned. Rarely used in recent years, the little theater, with its gilt chairs, roll-down curtain (a Nile landscape) and flaming torches, seemed an ideal setting for Rameau's wispily amusing farce about an old-maidish nymph in frantic pursuit of Jupiter's favors...
...group of 25 will perform in Russian, as it did when it travelled to the Soviet Union during the past two summers. After the performance, members will discuss their adventures behind the Iron Curtain...
...hold the audience's attention is the pomposity of Parson Manders' (spiritual advisor to Mrs. Alving) and his inability to contend with Osvald's defense of illicit marriage. At great length, the characters speak to each other seriously, but pointlessly, setting up the few magnificent scenes before the final curtain...
...former president of Smith College. From the University of Chicago comes Allison Davis, a distinguished Negro education professor. The other scholars include three psychiatrists and two law specialists. Their universities range from Texas and Harvard to Oxford and Amsterdam. From the University of Warsaw will come the first Iron Curtain visitor. Sociologist Stefan Nowakowski. And not least is Takdir Alisjahbana, celebrated philosopher of culture at Indonesia's National University, a gentle little man "wandering up and down the universe, shopping for what he can take home...