Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Posting nearly $2 million and made possible by a from John L. Loeb '24, New York financier, the theatre is considered the finest and most flexible in country. Loeb's gift, and those of other Harvard Radcliffe benefactors, built a brick and glass shown on Brattle Street, containing two theatres and a attitude of workshops, rehearsal rooms, and offices...
This flexibility and modernity, which make the main the finest in the country, also keynote the rest building. A 100-seat experimental theatre, to be for training actors, directors, and technical person and for producing original plays, is even more than the main auditorium. Its stage can be made any or shape and placed anywhere in the room. Both primental and main theatres have special electronic control systems designed by Izenour. tonight's invitational the formally-clad audience of of the theatre and alumni will the Center during a President's The Center public opening of Troilus Cressida will...
Were the ancient Romans men of austere probity, superior soldiers, masters of government? Is Rome a temple of the classic spirit? Was the Renaissance Italy's finest hour? Humbug, all humbug, says Menen in effect. As he sees it, ancient Rome's writers and pseudo sages produced a kind of corporate image of what the Romans wanted to be like, and subsequent historians have simply perpetuated it. Then as now, he implies, la dolce vita, the sweet life of lavish and cynical corruption, was close to the heart of Roman reality...
...title role, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn offered one of the finest characterizations of her career. From the moment she stepped out from behind a grotto, her body elfin, her face sharply kittenish, until she tremulously bestowed the kiss of death on her faithless lover Palemon (ably danced by Michael Somes), her movements had the kind of effortless grace that commanded immediate conviction. At one point, hovering in her lover's arms, she reached down to stroke his hair in a gesture that caught the whole measure of the heroine's innocence and fear. Ondine's weakness...
...like her hero, most readers will succumb to Author Tracy's finest creation: nubile Candida Firebrace, a velvet-eyed Calypso shouter whose hymn to the Christ Child runs...