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...This is it," says a young man in a pink union suit, as the curtain closes on the first of three play lets. But, luckily it isn't. Following Sid Gorman's The Center, which seems an obtuse animation of an Abner Dean cartoon the poets enact two less murky and much more enjoyable play lets. The best of these and perhaps the only real theater of the evening, is Richard Eberhardt's The Visionary Farms...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: The Poets Theater | 5/23/1952 | See Source »

...dormitories to stage a mass invasion of Sorority Row. They knocked down one house mother, swarmed up ladders and pillars, smashed windows, made off with 250 souvenir panties, girdles and brassieres. Next night, armed with pots of paint to daub their victims, they decided to re-enact the Rape of the Sabines, in the process thoroughly doused Dean Theos J. Thompson. "This has got to stop!" cried the dean. It did-after $700 worth of damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...enact at the vestry-glass

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A HARDY SAMPLER | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...this into effect, Congress must not only amend the Selective Service Act, but also enact the UMST program it adopted "in principle" last year. Because Army demands are due to grow--and with them the confusion inherent in the present system--a prompt beginning on some program of universal pre-college service is essential...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Season's Greetings | 1/8/1952 | See Source »

...moviemaking. To tell the story of German prisoners of war who worked as U.S. spies, Director Anatole (The Snake Pit) Litvak goes the semi-documentary technique one better: he uses locations in 16 German cities and towns not merely as backgrounds but as living sets to re-enact the chaos of a battered, squalid Germany in the critical winter of 1945. The canvas is broad, the detail meticulous, the effect overwhelmingly real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

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