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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even greater degree than was common among New England mystics, she was a recluse. This, according to the most popular, though by no means only, theory, was due to an early, unsuccessful love affair with a married man. Alison's House is based on this interpretation of Miss Dickinson's life, despite the fact that Alison Stanhope, the Emily Dickinson of the play, has been dead eighteen years by the time the play takes place. This is December 31, 1899. "The last day of Alison's century," as one of the characters helpfully points out. The Stanhope family is leaving...
...Knowles as the reporter managed by his tone and facial expressions to disguise the fact that the reporter is not a slimy busybody but a spiritual successor to Alison. Probably the best performance of the evening was given by Karen Johnson in the role of the wayward daughter. If Miss Johnson ever learns to use her face and voice as expressively as she can use her body, she will indeed be a great actress...
...audience, unless it comes prepared with texts, is likely to miss much; the listener is denied the luxury of pasuing at an evocative metaphor, and if he stops to puzzle over a line, he is likely to be left behind. Nevertheless, readings remain a rather popular local form of entertainment, and two Pulitzer Prize winners, Stanley Kunitz and Richard Wilbur, attracted a good hot-night crowd to New-Lowell Lec last week...
Indonesia has recently prohibited a contest to choose a Miss Indonesia for the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, Calif., after a leftist newspaper complained that she would be "manhandled and ogled at." In Bandung, Western movies are banned because they tend to show "racial discrimination" and provoke "adventurous sentiments." Hula-Hoops, about to catch on belatedly, were banned as sexually provocative...
...Colbert announced that Chrysler's small-car offering, the Valiant, would have its engine "up front, where it belongs." Ford Motor Co., whose small Falcon will also have a front engine, launched TV commercials demonstrating that an arrow weighted at the back end will fly erratically and miss the target, but that a "properly weighted" (i.e., heavy at the front) arrow will go straight to the mark...