Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tour over and the debt paid, 22-year-old Rafael was appointed resident conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1942, two years after his father's death, he was promoted to permanent conductor. Since then, young Kubelik has built the Czech orchestra from 85 to 120 pieces, raised its critical rating from fair to excellent...
...Father (by August Strindberg; English version by Robert L. Joseph; produced by Richard W. Krakeur & Mr. Joseph, in association with Harry Brandt) is one of the most vitriolic plays ever written. A man who suffered from, quarreled with and hated women because he loved them, who felt perpetually persecuted and all but went mad, Swedish Playwright Strindberg wrote The Father as a testimonial to his first marriage. Conceived in loathing and dedicated to the proposition that all women are created evil, The Father, first produced in 1887, inspired a new theatrical naturalism...
...play tells of a Swedish cavalry captain whose ruthless wife-in a deep sexual struggle for domination-malignly and methodically drives him insane. Her final ruse is to obsess him with the idea that he is not the father of their child. Strindberg is himself obsessed here, seeing all villainy in the world's wives, as the mad Lear saw it in the world's daughters. But if an unbalanced man, Strindberg was a far from impotent artist: he punctuated the play with flashes of insight and jabs of feeling...
Today The Father, in addition to its pathological excesses, wears a period air. Yet on a watered-down Broadway, a play that is all scorch and bite is worth reviving. Unhappily, last week's revival was more in the nature of a coffin nail. It lacked skill, perception and tension: at its best it could only serve up gall and wormwood as a kind of sizzling platter. As the wife, Mady Christians did, at any rate, sizzle now & then. As the husband, Raymond Massey merely spouted, as if announcing all the terrible things that did not seem...
...Moral Ideals. Born in Northampton, England in 1866, William Thomas Manning came to the U.S. with his father and mother when he was a high-school boy, took his training for the ministry at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. A forceful preacher, an energetic administrator and a precise theologian, he was called from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish...