Word: givens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Un Tramway Nommé Désir rolled into Paris in the costliest production ever given a U.S. play in France. Adapter-Producer Jean Cocteau, Parisian jack-of-all-arts, had treated it to a few touches of his own. In each seduction scene, a spotlight shifted to a Negro woman doing a belly dance in the background. Cocteau had also salted the dialogue. One critic noted that he had used "merde at least ten times, and it was one of the milder expressions...
...week's end, Parisians, like Londoners, had joined the lunacy wholeheartedly. Said the Paris theater manager: "The greatest sensation the American theater has ever given France." Streetcar still had stops to make in Germany, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Switzerland and Australia...
...year after his arrival in the Pacific, Kenney gave them a session which they themselves referred to as the "Black Day." On Aug. 17, 1943, over New Guinea, his "kids" destroyed 150 enemy planes one loss. Long before that, MacArthur had made his air chief a lieutenant general and given him a free hand...
Four additional Lectures of a more technical character will be given on succeeding Mondays and Thursdays, November 7, 10, 14 and 17, dealing with "Transplantation and Individuality" and "Problems of Growth and Form...
Professor Medawar will deliver a series of lectures on "Studies on Growth, Individuality and Ageing." The second talk of general interest will be given at the same time and place Thursday...