Word: flamingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counterrerror. But was the Sudan quite ready for independence? When Moslem Sudanese took over the British-trained Negro defense corps last August, the old hatred between Negro and Arab burst into flame. In Equatoria, southernmost province of the Sudan, the Negro soldiers rebelled, killed their officers and all Arabs they could find. Said a Negro Sudanese: "They talk of independence, but for us independence simply means slavery under the Arabs...
Laid in Yonkers in the '80s, and concerned with a rich, tightfisted old widower in search of a wife, the play tells how a scheming lady matchmaker blows out every match she gets lighted, till she herself manages to become the conquering flame. The story does nothing so genteel as unfold. It catapults and ricochets: characters bounce out of trapdoors, squeeze into closets, hide under tables, eavesdrop behind screens; boys dress up as girls and cab drivers loop with drink, identities are mistaken and purses mislaid. There is all the homey, cheerful pandemonium of a horse-and-buggy...
...teacher gasped -and many others since that day have gasped at Julie Harris. In the last dozen years, the girl with the plain little face and childlike limbs has laid her life upon the stage like a candle upon an altar, and the still, strong flame of her talent shines through the nervous wattage of Broadway with a pure and steady light. In a comparatively short career -until last week she had played only three major parts on Broadway -Julie Harris has established herself as, at the very least, the best young actress in America. A European director calls...
Julie Harris is an absolute goodbye to all that. As Playwright John van Druten puts it: "Onstage she is a flame, but as she leaves it she turns into a wisp of smoke." Not since Maude Adams has a famous actress cherished such a private private life. She and her husband. Stage Manager Manning Gurian. manage to live in midtown Manhattan, not ten blocks off Broadway, as quietly as two deaf theater mice in a kettledrum. They seldom go out, seldom entertain. Julie does the housework when she doesn't have a play, and takes care of the baby...
...said that her essential quality as a performer, as a person, is radiance. Her emotions do not flame out in all directions at her audience. The fire draws inward to a center, and there burns in a still whiteness not unlike the brightness that the mystics live...