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...when Ghosts was first produced, Clement Scott, a noted London critic, called Henrik Ibsen's play "an open drain, a loathsome sore unbandaged, a dirty act done publically..." But as performed by the Lowell House Drama Group, Ghosts is not nearly so shocking as it is dull, and eventually depressing. For when Ibsen's theme emerges through the verbiage and some discouragingly flabby acting, it retains a profound meaning...
...Enemy of the People, Ibsen wrote a masterpiece of crowd study which Miller has reworked with his own intimate knowledge of structure and stagecraft. The "terrible wrath of Henrik Ibsen" makes powerful theatre fare...
...also honored a famed scientist last week: Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington's National Academy of Sciences to address the meeting as Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, a gold medal and a $75,000 tax-free "honorarium" put up by the Ford Motor...
...drawings, and 34 examples of sculpture. The quality of the first category was high, with only four or five pieces of utter trash. The first prize in painting went for some reason to Fannie Hillsmith's "Pink Sofa," with other awards to Justin Curry, Glen Krause, Beverly Hallam, Henrik Mayer, John McClusky and Teal McKibben...
This collection contains a few selected letters to Joyce as well as hundreds from him. The first, written in 1901 when Joyce was 19, is a reverent birthday greeting to Henrik Ibsen and glows with optimism about the dawning age of "enlightenment." The last, written in 1940, three weeks before Joyce's death, is a note of thanks to the mayor of Zurich for giving Joyce and his family asylum from the Nazi war machine. It reflects the "painful times" on which the age of enlightenment has fallen...