Word: murrays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What's so funny about three tear-jerks on a bridge trying to outlament and outpsychologize each other? Author Murray Schisgal, Director Mike Nichols, and Performers Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin-that's what...
Against Copelessness. Charlotte Murray Curtis' society reporting blends a proper background with the perspective of the competent reporter. Born of strong-willed and well-to-do parents-her mother, who served in the U.S. Legation in Switzerland, was the first woman to be admitted to the U.S. Foreign Service-Charlotte grew up in Columbus, Ohio, talked her way into summer assignments for the Citizen (now the Citizen-Journal) while still at Vassar. "She had the disposition of a thoroughbred-overtrained, overbred and tense," recalls a colleague still on the paper. "She had a pride in being able to cope...
...judgment that ministers should be men led America's early universities, which were essentially seminaries, to refuse admission to girls. Coeducation did not start until 1837, when Oberlin let some women in. By the turn of the century, Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler thought the battle for coeducation had been fought and won: "The American people have settled the matter. Why discuss it further...
...Murray Schisgal laughs through his characters' tears, while Mike Nichols' direction and the performances of Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin make love seem an outrageously humorous subject...
Director Michael Murray achieves the difficult and peculiar French balance between comedy and intellectuality. His direction prevents side-spiting distractions from Giruadoux's pointed satire, and, partly through effective cutting of several long speeches, maintains lightness of faint. He touches, but doesn't overwhelm, the last act with shades of the pathetic and the ridiculous. The resuits are sublime...