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...been raging on and off the public stage for the past few months the Harvard Dramatic Club has been able to put together an altogether excellent production of a play that Boston should have seen before 1947, Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty." Perhaps competition is healthy; perhaps the unusual glow of publicity attending all dramatic events has spurred the members of the HDC on to greater things; but whatever the cause, they have managed to put on the Sanders stage what is easily their best production in recent years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...massive "bombs," Paricutin grew 1,290 feet. It is still adding slowly to its present height (1,380 ft). Geologists estimate that it has ejected by now 1,058,220,800 tons of material. The crater, for the moment, is in a quiet phase, with only a dull glow at night and a pillar of smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Upstart & Old Timer | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...sometimes difficult for provincial America and that adjective extends in many cases to both coasts--to credit Europeans with bad taste. In the glow of motion pictures like "The Well-Digger's Daughter" and "Open City," the United States audience may be tempted to believe that everything transported from across the Atlantic is automatically blessed with good taste, subtlety, and a vague form of sex. That such is not the case is shown to painful perfection in the latest Italian film at the Fine Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...After dinner the house guests collected in the big baroque hall to see a very reasonable facsimile of professional theater. . . . Then came a pep talk in Howard's English accents. . . . He warned that M.R.A. is 'no rosy glow of cosy revival' but 'costly revolution and colossal renaissance,' and illustrated the point by saying that his own change had compelled him to apologize to his younger brother for past meannesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confessions at Caux | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...historic week. At the opening of the 80th Congress, the House of Representatives was televised for the first time. During interminable roll calls, television's great eye strayed about the House-catching children sitting still as Capitol mice on Representatives' laps, investigating the planetary glow of congressional baldpates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roving Eye | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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