Word: murrays
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Other deserve warm commendation: Jane Alexander as the affectionate Julia, Terrence Currier as Bob Acres, the country bumpkin, and George Mitchell as Sir Lucius O'Trigger, the aged but still hot-headed city rake. But the warmest praise must go to Michael Murray, the director. His lively pace piles absurdity upon hilarity, yet he never crowds his little stage. His conception of the play rests upon the humor in each character, not in the situation, and he presents them as individuals with exaggerated but endearing faults. They share the same manners and conventions, but they have clearly defined personalities...
...others: Theodore Roosevelt, 1906; Elihu Root, 1912; Woodrow Wilson, 1919; Charles G. Dawes, 1925; Frank B. Kellogg (Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of State), 1929; Nicholas Murray Butler and Jane Addams, 1931; Cordell Hull, 1945; Evangelist John R. Mott and Pacifist Emily G. Balch, 1946; Dr. Ralph Bunche, 1950; Gen. George C. Marshall...
...complexity of the scheming also makes Sara's lines uncomfortably long, particularly in the second act. Director Michael Murray has contrived to have Sara (Jane Alexander) speak the difficult passages very rapidly. But the rapidity is unnatural, although the plot requires that the lines not be cut. Still Murray has done what...
...interviewer (Murray Hamilton) is as bright as a computer with a somewhat more insidious charm. Oh, yes, they want questioning minds at Baldwin-Nelson, only "the questioning mind must ask the same questions we ask." He describes the familial intimacy of corporate life, complete with a tidy housing development ("Some of the houses are colonial, some Tudor, but the best ones are both"). After further visits by the org man, Pilgrim decides to end the demeaning charade, only to find that the interviewer has seen through the conformity act all along, and has a few cellos of his own hidden...
MOST of TIME'S reporting is done by its 90 staff correspondents in 30 bureaus around the world-such as Chicago Bureau Chief Murray Gart, who did the major digging for this week's cover story, and Tokyo Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter, who covered the International Monetary Fund meeting in Tokyo for WORLD BUSINESS. But an important part of our coverage is supplied by more than 300 part-time correspondents -known in the office vocabulary as "stringers"-who report to us from near (Philadelphia) and far (Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia...