Word: humes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Segregationists of the U.S. South often quote the Book of Genesis 9:25, which relates that Canaan, the son of Ham-whose skin was believed to be black-is ac cursed throughout time: "A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." The 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume suspected "Negroes to be naturally inferior to the whites." Several U.S. Presidents, among them Jefferson and Lincoln, shared the same opinion, at least for a while. As long as the two races lived together, said Lincoln in 1858, "there must be the position of superior and inferior...
Since the cast of fifty includes Randolph-Macon students only, the male roles are all played by women. But after all this simply reverses the ancient practice, which allowed all-male casts only. A few of the big roles could have stood better acting; yet Jeannette Hume has a number of fine moments as Elektra. And it was a good idea for Elizabeth Scarff to portray Cassandra as insane, for this makes more credible the continued disbelief of all her auditors. I do wish something had been done about the actresses' accents: Attic Greek just does not mix with...
Karen Hagstrom, of Comstock Hall and Gloucester (Economics); Kathleen T. Harney, of Boston (Classics); Kathryn Hume, of Cambridge (English); Joan R. Mertens, of Eliot Hall and New York City (Fine Arts); Jean P. McClung, of Wolbach Hall and Lawton, Okla. (Anthropology); and Wendy C. Sanford, of Cambridge (English...
DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). Hume Cronyn narrates the first of three parts, "The Sacred Lake of the Taos," dealing with New Mexico's Taos Pueblo Indians and their fight with the U.S. Government over rights to their sacred Blue Lake area...
With gracious manners, in a spacious drawing room, a fiftyish couple are leading an embalmer's parody of life. Tobias (Hume Cronyn) looks like a pair of rumpled pajamas; Agnes (Jessica Tandy) has the cool, waxy elegance of an unlit candelabra. Their 36-year-old daughter has drifted away from four husbands. Agnes' unmarried sister Claire (Rosemary Murphy) drifts blissfully on a sea of alcohol. Like autumn leaves, they celebrate drift, having forgotten how to cling...