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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play runs somewhat shorter than most Broadway shows; but Schulman wisely refrained from padding it out unduly. If one were to find fault, it would be in the curtain lines that close the several scenes; more thought would have yielded better ones...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Hole in the Head | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

...read some of his "tragic" poems--"Dead Boy," "Janet Walking,"--and one of his metaphysical poems, "Persistent Explorer," of a man "who knows he is not going to find anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fugitive Poets Bring South to Harvard | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

Anthony next meets Christine in a bar, 18 years later; he has "lowered myself, as by a rope" into squalor--the cobwebs and cracked plaster of bohemia, to find "reality." He is betrothed by a mixture of lust, masochism, and jealousy, to a teen-age chambermaid who occupies as many beds as she makes...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: Guerard's 'Bystander' An Omelette Of Modern French Ironic Writers | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

...these men are chosen with an eye to teaching. To effect this, and to hire a greater number of tutors, instructors and teaching fellows, a good deal of money is necessary. When the program was first announced, Dean Bundy asserted that it presented to the Faculty a "mandate" to find the necessary funds. With the aid of the Program for Har- vard College and, of course, Procter and Gamble, the mandate has been fulfilled...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: More Money, More Work | 8/7/1958 | See Source »

...friendship nor love but a mixture of sickly attraction and grisly revulsion. Jean Paul Sartre, contributing an enthusiastic forward, explains: "If we take a look at what goes on inside people, we glimpse a moiling of flabby, many-tentacled evasions . . . Roll away the stone of the commonplace and we find running discharges, slobberings, mucous; hesitant amoeba-like movements. [Nathalie Sarraute's] vocabulary is incomparably rich in suggesting the slow, centrifugal creeping of these viscous, live solutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many-Tentacled Evasions | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

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