Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chose the small, upstate Richmond (111.) State Bank, borrowed his father's -45-cal. and a neighbor's car, drove to Richmond. In the middle of the day he walked calmly into the bank ("I wanted to be fair, so I didn't wear a mask"), vaulted the counter, flourished the -45-cal. and told the astonished teller to put the money into an empty shopping...
...strange but sure perspective. The play suggests a kind of emotional total recall rather than subjective involvement; in the most personal of his plays O'Neill seems, as a writer, least selfconscious. He has succeeded, not-as is usual in creative autobiography-through assuming some kind of mask, but through stripping himself bare. Memory has had for O'Neill an incandescence that imagination seldom...
Using the pseudonym of "Istvan Laszlo," he testified yesterday before the Senate Internal Security Committee. The chance of recognition by Soviet agents was further reduced by the white gauze surgical mask he wore...
Major Barbara, on any basis of talent, is certainly major Shaw. Seldom was G.B.S. so fertile and brilliant-though he seldom so needed to be. For here the tireless showman who put on this mask and that, turned to this side or the other, came closest to a complete about-face. Here, in exalting a great munitions-maker, Socialist Shaw fired, as never so fiercely again, on his own ranks. The real weakness of Major Barbara is not that Shaw went ideologically into reverse, but that he went intellectually clean off the road...
...contrast to Harvard, only two groups exist on the campus, the Mask and Wig, a tweedy Hasty Pudding outfit, and the Pennsylvania Players, a half-serious dramatic group...