Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back & forth diagonally in four groups, so that City Center's scant (40-ft.) stage always seemed full of excitement but never cluttered. Throughout, it was the most stunning ballet production Manhattan balletomanes had seen in many a moon. With the final curtain, the audience set up the kind of clamor that let Choreographer Balanchine, Conductor Leon Barzin and the whole cast know...
White Elephant. In Chicago, Hilton ran into tradition of another kind. For years the $30 million Stevens, world's biggest (3,000 rooms) hotel, had stood like a half-filled honeycomb as a monument to the folly of its builders. The Army used it as a barracks at the beginning of the war, and in 1943 Chicago Contractor Stephen Healy bought the white elephant and caught Hilton's eye by making it pay in the war boom that was suddenly filling all hotels. But when Hilton began to bargain for the Stevens, he met his match in Healy...
Since Frankenberg doesn't mean Pleasure Dome to be profound literary criticism, and since it isn't, it can be judged by only one standard: Does it really help the ordinary intelligent reader-the kind who might tackle a Faulkner novel but shies away from an Eliot poem-to understand and enjoy 20th Century poetry...
Throughout all the demonstrations, Dr. Moreno stood at the edge of the stage ready to slap and shove his actors into giving a more lively performance. Sometimes he functioned as a kind of jester, making pertinent wisecracks about the going-on. At other times, he appeared to be meditating, with chin resting on chest, one hand across his back and the other across his heart...
...recent meetings, the Social Relations Society gave a demonstration of a new kind of group psychotherapy. It is called "Psychodramas," and its inventor, J. L. Moreno, was on hand to run the show. The new yellow, red, and green psychotheater on Mt. Auburn street was filled to standing-room-only for the occasion...