Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soloist, Jean Lunn, realized fully all the expressive and emotional possibilities of these songs. Her voice, although not a big one, is suited to the demands of this kind of music. The performance was properly dramatic, the last song, "Geburt Christi," being particularly exciting...
...major item on the program, Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit, is a highly complex and intellectual vision purveying a vision of hell as "other people" in perhaps unnecessarily melodramatic terms. The central characters are so exaggerated as human types that only a considerable dramatic achievement renders the characters and situation believable even as fantasy, while at the same time serving the author's somewhat muddy propagandistic purpose...
...President carved and helped eat a 40-lb. Thanksgiving turkey with Mrs. Eisenhower, his son Major John, daughter-in-law Barbara, grandchildren David, 9, Barbara Anne, 8, Susan Elaine, 5, and Mary Jean, almost 2. "The President is in fine spirits," said a new medical bulletin. "His progress continues to be excellent...
...onetime Matinee Idol Osgood Perkins (who died in 1937), Tony scrambled into show business on his own. He finished 24th in a class of 25 at the Browne & Nichols school, later thumbed his way to Hollywood, got a screen test, ended up playing in The Actress with Jean Simmons. In 1954 he took over from John Kerr as the troubled adolescent in Broadway's Tea and Sympathy...
...bold composition device and dramatic lighting it ranks with the best of his work. Allan Ramsay was another Scottish painter, whose paintings managed to catch the character of his sitters so definitively that Philosopher David Hume commissioned him to paint the famed French writer-philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his outlandish purple caftan and fur cap, while Rousseau was living in exile in London...