Word: dickinsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more you look at Emily Dickinson's work, the more you come to appreciate the stature of her poetry," Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, observed Friday at the bicentennial of the founding of Amherst Township...
...revival of Alison's House, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Susan Glaspell in 1931, showed us some writing that could not get by in the theatre today; but the story, based on the mysterious life of poetess Emily Dickinson, is inherently dramatic and playworthy. A woman also wrote the group's next offering, The Chalk Garden. Enid Bagnold's play about two interlocking struggles is a good deal better than Miss Glaspell...
...Washington last week, the three-member board of monitors, set up by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to oversee Teamster affairs, confronted President Hoffa with an order to get rid of Joey Glimco. The monitors want Hoffa to suspend Glimco from the presidency of Local 777 and have the local's financial records audited by a reliable firm. Among other things, charged the monitors, Glimco...
Vanishing Files. One potentially formidable roadblock to Jimmy Hoffa's plans is a three-member Board of Monitors, set up in early 1958 by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to watch over Teamster affairs...
Although Emily Dickinson lived, in the words of Conrad Aiken, "a life perfectly devoid of outward event," there was one great mystery about her. To an even greater degree than was common among New England mystics, she was a recluse. This, according to the most popular, though by no means only, theory, was due to an early, unsuccessful love affair with a married man. Alison's House is based on this interpretation of Miss Dickinson's life, despite the fact that Alison Stanhope, the Emily Dickinson of the play, has been dead eighteen years by the time the play takes...