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...performance which embodies slapstick drollery and technical subtlety to a higher degree of perfection. Earle Hyman as the more intelligent Valdimir suggests just the right amount of dignity, and Rex Ingram makes a beautifully fearsome and pathetic Pozzo. As for Lucky, the part demands a pantomimist, and in Geoffrey Holder it has found a master of this form. Herbert Berghof, who also directed the original production, molded the four performances into a superbly balanced whole, and accomplished his job with imagination and no little daring. The merits of Samuel Beckett's contribution to the evening may be debated...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Waiting for Godot | 1/15/1957 | See Source »

...Britain is no longer a super-Power," wrote British Editor Geoffrey Crowther in the current Foreign Affairs. "She is perhaps in a class by herself, but it is not the highest class, nor is it one that permits her the luxury of fully independent action." The urgent need, he insisted, "for Britain and France is to realize the extent to which they have become dependent on the U.S. and to accommodate themselves to this fact." Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge put it more simply: "The days of GREAT Britain are over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: New Talk of Unity | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...Died. Geoffrey Parsons, 77, longtime (1924-52) chief editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune, who won the Pulitzer Prize (1942) for "clearness of style, moral purpose and power to influence public opinion"; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...young newcomers. In the singing department, there were La Scala's big-voiced Soprano Antoinetta Stella, 27, and lyrical Tenor Carlo Bergonzi, 32. Both suffered from debutitis, but recovered, and will probably become Met regulars. Most spectacular newcomer was Trinidad's rangy (6 ft. 6 in.) Dancer Geoffrey Holder, who appeared in the big ballet that sprawls in the middle of the opera. Holder made a startling appearance, his long brown body bare except for a white bikini and a brilliant, feather-patterned headdress. In a primitive tribal dance that recalled his appearance last year in Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Callas' Tosca | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...Donald K. David, former dean of the Business School; Fredrick M. Eaton '27; Marshall Field Jr. '38; G. Peabody Gardner '10; Courtlandt S. Gross '27; R. Keith Lane '22; Roy E. Larsen '21; Neil H. McElroy '25; James J. Milton '13; Arthur W. Page '05; Paul C. Reardon '32; Geoffrey S. Smith '22; Edgar B. Stern '07; Robert G. Stone '20; Paul P. Swett, Jr. '32; Philip H. THeopold '25; John E. Toulmin '25; Frederick M. Warburg '19; Frederic B. Whitman '19; George Whitney '07; and Charles E. Wyzanski...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Appoints Body To Direct Fund Raising | 11/13/1956 | See Source »

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