Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pointed out, a lot of what the Faculty wife does depends upon what she has to do at home, rather than on her husband's position, and this was echoed by Mrs. Bundy's remark about "maintenance." With four small children, not all yet of school age, a good proportion of Mrs. Bundy's time is devoted to raising children and keeping house. In addition, however, Mrs. Bundy has found time to get over to the Radcliffe library to study Spanish in preparation for a trip to South America which she and her husband will be making, to work actively...
...plight of the newcomers is one which Mrs. Rupert Emerson feels quite strongly. Both she and Mrs. Fainsod pointed out that the Faculty wife serves as an informal settling agent. At newcomer's teas, the most common question put to the "old guard" is where one can find a good pediatrician. The vast problem of helping the newcomers find housing and friends takes up some of their time...
...played by the Lowell Dramatic Group, Ghosts is almost vapid. The actors appear to observe the characters from the outside, often reciting lines as if they were participating in a first or second rehearsal. Each has a few good moments, each delivers occasional lines with gratifying conviction, but none is capable of sustaining the intensity which Ghosts requires...
...pivotal figure in the play is, of course, Mrs. Alving, but as Anne Miner portrays her she is constrained almost to the point of inarticulateness. In the minor roles, Lisa Commager (the Alving's maid) is beautiful and occasionally quite good, while Laurence Jacobs often misinterprets the character of Jacob Engstrand, a Falstaffian carpenter...
...might have used his jaws to better effect in chewing out his mediator in the steel strike, who accomplished nothing; or his President, whose threats of intervention worried only the unions; or his President again, for invoking the Taft-Hartley act, which will do precious little good...