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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Morris Hunt '36 last night attacked the New York Times for what he termed "a gross misrepresentation of facts" in an article which revealed that Siobhan McKenna, star of "Chalk Garden," would act the title role in an August production of "Saint Joan" for "the Harvard University Drama Festival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Times' Charged With Distortion Of Theatre Festival's Intentions | 3/3/1956 | See Source »

...production, a masterful combination of "theater" with "opera," brings new energy to the stage, and the principles well fulfill Mr. Goldovsky's goal by adding acting ability to singing talent. Kenneth Smith is dashing and powerful at the Don, who is humorously charming, clear voices, particularly the coquettish Joan Noynagh (Zerlina) and Adele Addison (Donna Anna...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin and Cliff F. Thompson, S | Title: Mozart in Boston | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

...JOAN MCLAUGHLIN Mayfield Heights, Ohio Sir: As one member of the board of education here, I strongly protest that the reading study which has been going on in this community for the past three years was referred to as an example of action taken by parents and teachers who mistake "bad practice for bad theory." The Phonetic Keys to Reading, which is used here, could not be described as "a return to rigid phonics." The time expended by the teachers in an effort to find a method whereby more children may learn to read better, the results of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1956 | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Like organic spongy life of the sea or the weird shapes that bubble and float before our half-closed eyes in bright sunlight, the forms of Joan Miro drift across his canvasses. For their simplicity, the crescents, spots and silhouettes have been called no form at all but only elements--embryos of form like "graffati that children scratch on walls" or that "prehistoric man engraved in caves...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Joan Miro | 1/11/1956 | See Source »

Gadding about California with time out to watch some rocket tests, roughhewn Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson put on his dinner jacket one evening and showed up in Pasadena at the coronation ball honoring Pasadena City College coed Joan Culver, 18, new queen of the Tournament of Roses, which adds to the hoopla of the Rose Bowl football game. In the vanguard of the traditional mammoth parade through Pasadena this week, "Engine Charlie" Wilson rode in a flossy, rose-festooned convertible as the procession's grand marshal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1956 | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

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