Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD takes the little men of Shakespeare and transforms them into the little Everymen of Beckett. In his American debut, British Playwright Tom Stoppard, 30, offers an agile, witty play that snaps with verbal acrobatics and precisely choreographed dances of the mind, while coming heart-beat close to the pity and terror of mortality. In the title roles, Brian Murray and John Wood are phenomenal, and Derek Goldby's direction has tensile strength...
...campaign cap ("I was in the Confederate army"), and the acting simplicity of her late, longtime co-star Spencer Tracy ("a baked potato"). Not quite forgetting the purpose of the conference, Hepburn did offer a few professional words about her remarkably look-alike niece, who makes her movie debut in the last movie Hepburn and Tracy made together: a comedy called Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. "For her a smile is a smile is a smile," sighed old Kate. "For me it's a camera angle...
Muckracking in University affairs, especially any possible complicity with the Vietnam war, will be one of the main purposes of a new magazine for the Harvard community scheduled to make its debut next month...
...British rock trio called Cream has poured into the U.S. for its American debut, and the faithful are flipping out. The underground circuit in the pop world of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Manhattan and Detroit is still vibrating from what may be the biggest musical jolt out of England since the Beatles and the Rolling Stones...
...Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is that it is one of those rare plays able to open worlds of art, life and death. The sun of this drama is coruscating wit and laughter; its shade is melancholy death. Broadway may not see a more auspicious playwriting debut this season...