Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language in the production did not bother me at all. I was prosaic enough to take the "Did the earth move?" dialogue as gypsy lore. Let's just assume that your critic has neither been a gypsy nor ever made love on a mountainside. I've never been a gypsy either, but I have made love on a mountainside. Could this have helped...
Throughout the play, his ideological and practical adversary is the police lieutenant, a good fellow who has swallowed the party line of building heaven on earth, and who regurgitates said line a little too often. As the lieutenant, Dean Gitter is properly obnoxious, and convinces one that he sincerely believes in the socialist doctrines he preaches. In his final conversation with the priest (adequately though not excitingly portrayed by Michael Mabry), he successfully conveys the impression that some human element is lacking in Utopian thought, while the priest presents the case for suffering...
...least one item of Harvard property, a book entitled Treasures of the Earth, was identified yesterday by two professors of Mineralogy, police said. A small soapstone statuette of a "Modern Eskimo," probably worth at least several hundred dollars, will be examined today by a staff member of the Archaeology Museum to see if it was taken from the museum...
Died. Catherine Tobin Wright, 87, first wife of Patriarchitect Frank Lloyd Wright, mother of his first six children, including California Architect John Lloyd Wright, author of My Father Who Is On Earth, and Mrs. Catherine Baxter, mother of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; in Santa Monica, Calif. "Young husband-to-be just twenty-one, the young wife-to-be not yet eighteen," wrote Frank Lloyd Wright in the split-level prose of his autobiography. "Wedding [1890] on a rainy day. More resembled a funeral. The sentimentality I was learning to dread came into full flower. The heavens weeping out of doors...
...occupy the castle. The second heals himself by husbandry, tending the displaced soil and its peasants. But the third brother, Amadeus, finds no panacea to hand. Years in a concentration camp have killed his trust in human beings. War and revolution have so sapped his faith in the earth itself that he can only sigh skeptically when a cheerful clergyman assures him that healing "always begins with the hands . . . Our Heavenly Father looks after the heart." But Amadeus seeks regeneration of a profounder sort, because he sees deeper and farther than his fellow...