Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. José Ferrer, 36, actor-producer (Othello, Cyrano de Bergerac); and Phyllis Hill, 27, blonde Broadway actress (Angel Street, Cyrano de Bergerac); four days after his Mexican divorce from blonde Broadway Actress Uta Hagen (Angel Street, Othello) ; she for the first time, he for the second; in Greenwich, Conn...
...first novel, Tropic of Cancer, came out in Paris in 1931, it was greeted with shocked silence, snickers, or the sound of licking lips. Its admirers took its weedy profusion of four-letter words for daring wit and convention-defying "art." Miller became the hero of Bohemian barflies and Greenwich Villagers everywhere...
Last week, Manhattan opera fans were given a pretty good idea of what The Duenna is all about. Greenwich Village's aggressive little Lemonade Opera (TIME, Sept. 8) had acquired two vocal scores from which it squeezed out an arrangement for two pianos and a full complement of 19 singers...
...longtime professor at the Catholic Institute of Paris, Maritain has lectured at top European universities (Oxford, Heidelberg, Louvain, Milan). The fall of France found him on the U.S. university lecture circuit (Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton). He settled down to a Greenwich Village exile, walked daily to mass at old St. Joseph's, consumed quantities of peanuts and ginger ale, and held a Sunday salon frequented by savants and celebrities. Said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "Maritain [belongs] to that small company of great spirits in any age from whom one may learn...
...last it became possible to buy a set without fearing that it would be outdated tomorrow. Telesets appeared in bars, and a dog in Greenwich, Conn, was stricken with television-induced eyestrain...