Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seesaw. A Greenwich Village girl and an Omaha lawyer take love for a pick-me-up, and life is passingly sweet, sad and funny...
Born the son of a German wood carver in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1862, young Maybeck made his way to Paris, studied at the Beaux Arts, developed a deep and abiding love for all the great traditional styles. He treated them as a huge treasure-trove, to be dipped into as the artist's imagination dictated. He returned to the U.S. and moved to San Francisco, where he founded the University of California's architectural department...
Wonderful Town's book, concerning the adventures of two ambitious midwestern sisters in naughty old Greenwich Village, lacks both continuity and imagination. A less skillful and enthusiastic production might have turned the play into a series of entertaining but isolated revues. Instead, Louise Bell and Susie Colt's direction has not only developed the contrast between the two sisters, it has managed to keep some continuity in the action...
...eight months, with Negro Writer William Attaway and Negro Actor Ferman Phillips, Belafonte operated an eatery in Greenwich Village called the Sage. Says Harry: "I did the cooking in the window. All kinds of people flocked in-folk singers, junkies. We gave them hash. If you were lucky, we threw an egg on it." Afterhours, Belafonte and his pals started to organize a folk-singing group. Says Attaway: "We wouldn't even open the door unless we needed somebody. The guy would rap, and we would open up and say: 'O.K., we need a bass, you can come...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Generation Without a Cause, Rutgers University students and faculty, plus a bunch of Greenwich Village beatniks, are given the sociological once-over...