Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dream of mankind, the magic box that will bring man the world." Unlike many other TV boosters, ex-Paratrooper McCleery backs up his big words with ambitious actions. On his Hall of Fame (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he has staged shows ranging from the two-hour Maurice Evans Hamlet to an hour-long excerpt from Thomas Wolfe's gargantuan, garrulous novel, Of Time and the River...
Levin termed the announcement "the turning point we have all been waiting for and working for." Dramatic activity at Harvard, without a theatre, he said, has been like "Hamlet without the Prince," but "at last that strategic role has been filled...
...difference between The Last Supper and the greatest of modern photographs is that Da Vinci's painting is a product of the imagination. The picture came from inside Da Vinci, just as Hamlet came from inside Shakespeare. Photographs come from the outside; the camera artist sees something memorable in the world about him, and seizes it from the stream of time into a flat and shadowy sort of permanence. His picture is not so much created as caught. Photography can and often does produce great things without the intercession of genius (many of the finest World War II pictures...
There's a story about an elderly lady who want to see Hamlet for the first time. She liked it all right, except it was full of quotations. The Maltese falcon may seem like, that after a decade of imitations, but it's still one of the finest detective stories ever filmed...
Wheelhouse. Oldest part of the grim little hamlet was a "broch tower": a crude donjon keep. Beside it was a walled courtyard. For shelter against the rough climate, they had a "roundhouse" that was roofed along its circular outer walls, leaving an open space for a fire in the middle...