Word: fairing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeals to many of the less fortunate members of our society. However, it is also common knowledge that his strongest support comes from some of Mississippi's leading citizens. A more careful analysis of Ross Barnett will indicate that he is not a "bitter racist," but a benevolent, fair-minded Southern segregationist dedicated to helping the Southern Negro while maintaining Southern dignity and tradition...
...humbling profession." On the face of it, Playwright Hart has little to be humble about. As co-author of such comedy classics as The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Can't Take It with You, as librettist of Lady in the Dark and director of My Fair Lady, he will hold top billing in the American popular theater for a long time to come. But he has not had a play of his own on Broadway since the earnest, charming Climate of Eden in 1952. (There were those who loved it, but it flopped.) To get over...
...brooding hills and its sooted shadows, that brings out the digger and molder in a man, and by the age of ten Moore knew he would be a sculptor. Their miner's home was poor and crowded-Henry was the seventh of eight children. Father Moore was a fair but stern man. Says son Henry: "He was the complete Victorian father, aloof, spoiled like all of them in those days. No one could sit in his particular chair. But though he was not outwardly soft, he had a real concern and love and ambition for us. Particularly...
...Would it be fair to say that the opposite has occurred: that your moral concern has grown more intense in the absence of any assurance of God's existence or of an after life...
...Falk, who for a dozen summers had produced plays in New England Mutual Hall, decided to throw in the towel after losing money the past two summers. Stepping into the gap came the Boston Summer Playhouse. The first offering, a dreadful item called Fair Game, was given an insultingly inept performance. After a quick reshuffling of plans, the Playhouse bounced back with a fairly amusing production of F. Hugh Herbert's delightful sophisticated comedy, The Moon is Blue, in which Frank Langella and Frederick Morehouse '59-3 performed with considerable skill. Jan de Hartog's The Four-poster, a series...