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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing a slow burn! Mr. Kozlov and his Commie friends are allowed to inspect our nuclear-powered merchant vessels under construction, and with their high-powered cameras take pictures of everything in sight [July 20]. Do we have to make it so easy for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...Warren-Mazo explosion and Warren's 1957 petty blackballing of Nixon, I can only say there must be many today whose faith in Chief Justice Warren's considered judgment is now a thing of the past. That such a man is our Chief Justice must make "the lady in the harbor" wince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

Sylvia Daneel and Tad Danielewski are husband and wife in real life, but that is about where the adherence to precedent ends, I fear. They both have pronounced European accents, which might have added an interesting quality to the produce of a Dutch playwright. However, they make for some strange line readings and an improper inflection often kills a good laugh...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: Summer Playhouse Presents De Hartog's 'The Fourposter' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

Whoever rounded up the period costumes and props did a noble job tastefully and with great industry. But the long and intricate scene changes might be an indication that it is not such a good idea to do a heavy prop show in the round. Appropriate music might make the going a little less rough...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: Summer Playhouse Presents De Hartog's 'The Fourposter' | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

...fused. It observes the classic unities of time and place and occurs against a magnificent backdrop of mountains (which the set of the current production has denied us). The theme must owe something to Betti's lifelong career as a magistrate: it tells of the final human hunger to make sense of things--political catastrophies, the death of those we love--by restoring the concepts of guilt and innocence, punishment and choice, in all their dreadful nobility. Only by forcing the wedge of moral responsibility into our lives and consenting to suffer its risks and pains, can the world...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: The Burnt Flower-Bed | 7/30/1959 | See Source »

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