Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabb is an intelligent and imaginative director. But no matter what values he feels may have changed in Streetcar, I'm afraid the protagonist of the play has not. This is not Stanley's play nor ever will be, and to try and make it so by removing every trace of grace and nobility from Blanche, leaving her as little more than a drunken whore, is hardly fair to Mr. Williams. Once this is done, the play is no longer Blanche's tragedy, nor does it become Stanley's triumph, but rather an extended sort of fertility rite. "Procreative power...
...overly enthusiastic audience crowded Kresge Auditorium last Wednesday evening to hear Richard Dyer-Bennet, folk-singer and guitarist, open the Harvard-M.I.T. Summer Series...
...painting, the Maternite, is a great masterpiece of the Blue Period, an altar-piece of modern painting. Its cool blues, El Grecoesque modeling of the light on the draperies, and monumental rendering add up to the finest work by Picasso I can remember having seen--for good measure I'm even tempted to throw in Guernica! This painting is seen to best advantage on an overcast day when the Fogg puts an overhead light upon it. The best setting for it, however, would be the magnificent shadowed light of an Early Gothic Church. The other works in the gallery include...
...convince the public that they really know the difference between a snowstorm, say, and a Scotch mist. But it is doubtful that they will ever adequately replace NBC-TV's Tedi Thurman, who once announced: "The temperature in New York is 46, and me, I'm...
...that the union would stay at work until July 15. He also retreated from the stand that he would extend the contract only if any wage hikes in any new contract would be retroactive to July 1, an issue on which previous negotiations had floundered. U.S. Steel Chairman Roger M. Blough, the man who has most to say about bargaining matters, and the heads of eleven other steel companies agreed to the new terms. This week negotiations were resumed at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt...