Word: ende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scheduled to end in mid-May, the campaign for funds "has been carried out almost strictly by Armenians in America over a three year period," according to Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies...
Proctor is given a somewhat twitchy performance by John Heffernan, who must surely have the best-exercised neck-muscles on the American stage. When Mr. Heffernan finally drops his mannerisms near the end of the play, it becomes clear that they have been largely concealing a good strong piece of acting. Mary Weed, Olympia Dukakis, and Edward Finnegan contribute excellent work in a generally in-and-out cast...
...many of the characters are not as vivid as they might be, it is not entirely the fault of the actors. There is some slight sense that they were a second thought on Mr. Miller's part, as if he regarded them simply as a means to his end of writing about the implications of witch-hunting. He appears to be a Brechtean at heart, but not in manner, and so has neither produced a passionate parable a la Brecht, nor created particularly memorable autonomous characters in the naturalistic tradition...
This meet will end what Coach Brooks has called a "good, wholesome season." After defeating Army, Navy, Cornell, and Dartmouth--all of whom this year had their best teams in history, the varsity lost a one-sided contest to Yale. The reasons for the varsity's traditional second-place finish are simple--against Yale, as Brooks put it, we had the ponies, not the horses...
...picture says no such horrid, controversial thing. According to one billboard, the hero (Montgomery Clift) has a relatively simple problem: "Will he make a good husband?" Though his heart bleeds for humanity, the wound is healed with a kiss, and in the end it looks as though he gets married and lives happily ever after...