Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bender, reiterating a statement he made to the CRIMSON two weeks ago, reported to Provost Buck, "The academic record made by the students was the best in the modern history of the College...
Prof. Dana, formerly of Columbia, has lived in the USSR for a total of five year at various times. He has written several books, among them "Drama in Wartime Russia" and "History of Modern Drama: Russia...
Tonight's lecture is the first of five to be put on by the Society under the theme of "Films, Music, and the Theatre in Modern Society...
There are two additional hardships put upon the audience and the actors by the modernization that possibly did not occur to the Idlers. Modern audiences expect modern plays (as this one now is) to have a plot they can follow or else no plot at all. "The Way of the World" contains the world's most complicated plot: when seeing it done in Restoration style the plot rightly seems of no importance; when it becomes a play of Cafe Society, there is a natural and frustrating inclination to try and figure...
...some amusing stage business which grey flannels and New Looks do not offer. Above these obstacles, there is some fine comedy acting by the Idler group. Barbara Tuttle's Millimant was very clever, warm, and extremely attractive. The Witwoud of Peter Davis-Dibble seemed to carry over best into modern dress and he was particularly funny in his drunk scene. Carol LaCascio, as Foible, and Harris Clay as Sir Wilful Witwoud were especially good. The part of Lady Wishfort was a disappointment, both in the too-subtle way the Lady's name was pronounced and in Nancy Rodriguez's unsubtle...