Word: duncan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death of Satan. As the curtain went up last week on Poet Ronald Duncan's play, three comfortable chaps were reading newspapers in a club in Hell. One by one they revealed their faces: Shaw, Wilde, Byron. Happy shades, they play poker for their professional reputations ("I'll wager Mrs. Warren's Profession"-"I'll raise you Childe Harolde") and tolerate Satan, dressed as a clergyman, as he steals their jokes...
...Prodigal. As Playwright Duncan is drawn to fantasy, Manhattan-born, 24-year-old Jack Richardson (Columbia '57) is drawn to myth: with the courage of youth, he has walked straight into the house of Atreus to kidnap King Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Orestes, Electra. But what might have been merely a leached-out academic exercise is a fresh, deeply written play that uses classical means for a 20th century statement...
...handful of Londoners, irked at being awakened by jet aircraft flying over their houses near London Airport, last week pounded on the front door of a Vincent Square town house. Roused by the knocking was Aviation Minister Duncan Sandys, who emerged, rumpled and in a dressing gown, to be confronted by placards reading "Ban Night Jet Flying!" Explaining that he could do nothing about the nightly noise, Early-Riser Sandys then went back inside...
...summer, the group that once gave basic training to Comics Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May rented a Chinese laundry, built a stage and paneled the walls with the sides of discarded phone booths. Many in the company-including Director Paul Sills, Actors Barbara Harris, Severn Darden, Andrew Duncan-date back to the Nichols-May-Berman days, keep up their longstanding practice of developing material as it comes into their heads during rehearsal...
...London, they marked their ballots for Oliverum Shewell Franks or Mauricium Haraldum Macmillan. Education Minister Sir David Eccles was among those who had to revalidate their degrees to vote, a process that brought Oxford an unexpected windfall of $6,000 in fees. One train brought down Aviation Minister Duncan Sandys from London. Old Laborite Lord Beveridge, 81, tottered in just in time. One M.A. came in a wheelchair, another in an ambulance. By week's end, Oxford had a new chancellor: Mauricius Haraldus Macmillan...