Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...machines out to "see life" in that society by setting up communications links between them and other computers in dispersed locations. Says R. M. Bloch, a vice president of Honeywell: "The computer that lacks an ability to communicate with the outside world is in danger of remaining an isolated marvel mumbling to itself in the air-conditioned seclusion of its company's data-processing room...
TINY ALICE, by Edward Albee. Life is a many-symboled thing in this opaque play of the post-Christian ethos. Paradoxically, Alices only emotional vitality stems from Christian symbols and experience. The language is sometimes eloquent but often merely prolix. The cast, headed by John Gielgud, is a marvel...
...that impulse which precedes actual speech. If the attempt had been made to communicate them to Mr. Gordon purely in terms of language instead of in terms of psychological tone and gesture, I sincerely doubt that he would have been subject to the same "fascination" which led him to "marvel" at the production...
...close attention as you marvel, for though the rendering is flawless, the choice of style for the two readings should be carefully studied--and questioned. I've attended Loeb main stage performances regularly for the last two years now, and I find the successes of each performance becoming predictable. Hamlin has relied, as most directors have, on the experienced skill of the same star-studded cast. Last night, the cast acted with the same excellence they've always shown, and I wondered if the use of stars wasn't becoming a riskless formula which Hamlin didn't dare violate...
...Edward Albee. Life is a many-symboled thing in this opaque play of the post-Christian ethos. Paradoxically, Alice's only emotional vitality stems from Christian symbols and experience. The language is sometimes eloquent but often merely prolix. The cast, headed by John Gielgud, is a matchless marvel...