Word: details
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...danger for a play like this in the theater is that it will be all wings and no feet. But John Gielgud's staging is as precise in detail as it is ebullient in effect; and a finely blended English cast knows how to rumble the lines or caw them, toss them to the roof or throw them away. As the soldier, Gielgud gives a dashing if slightly unmodulated performance. As the lady, Pamela Brown proves that Fry did not write the part for her in vain. No one has a more gloriously uppity charm; no voice can simultaneously...
...Odets temporizes as well as blunders. Beset by the problem of having to make the play run till 11 o'clock and of wanting to make it run till June, he stages a double retreat from life into show business, filling out the play with colorful backstage detail, phonying it up with facile on-stage emotions. His talent is-flawing again, but from a faucet in dire need of a filter, 'it is depressing to find so much shoddy in a play that can here & there merge deep compassion with burning anger...
Gray suggests no way by which the U. S. can carry this increased load of aid without having to cut into its own economy. This is the annoying detail which is perhaps best left out of an idealistic report. But it is the annoying detail the U. S. must face. If the U. S. is to carry out the proposals of the Gray report--and our national security may depend on those proposals--it had better be prepared to give plenty, and to give it cheerfully, for as long as our perspective allies need aid to remain solvent...
Hobson put it somewhat differently. Said he: "My connection with the fashion operation of Harper's Bazaar is at best gossamer. However, at what Cole Porter has described as the charming age of puberty, I ceased drawing racing automobiles and began to draw women, with equal detail, and with what I like to think was even more combustible effect...
...reported in detail in the CRIMSON, on three separate occasions after this offer, candidate Coolidge declined the same invitation. In the face of the third declination by Mr. Coolidge to appear at Harvard, the best that the HYRC could concoct to cover their failure was a patently ridiculous invitation that their candidate allegedly tended to the Governor to debate aboard the Coolidge sound-ruck as it was passing through Harvard Square. The Governor's campaign managers considered this stunt "insulting," but reitorated the Governor's willingness to meet Mr. Coolidge in orderly debate at the University. Mr. Coolidge's managers...