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Playwrights Coxe & Chapman have understood Melville's story. They have not sentimentalized it. They have kept Billy from seeming a mere goody-goody. They have banished all bravura from the trial scene. They have contrived a very quiet scene where the Captain tells Billy of his fate. Moreover, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Feb. 19, 1951 | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

There is no love element to confuse the plot--"Billy Budd" has an all-male cast. But there are other distractions, apart from the distilled characters of Billy and Claggart. The early dialogue contains too many quick jumps from the humblest prose to polysyllabic poetry, and the first act is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

The opponents are Dartmouth, Yale, and Princeton. Last week, Crimson anchor man Berman ran a 49.7 leg to catch Dave Krivitzky of the Big Green at the tape by a matter of inches. The Dartmouth runners tonight will be Reggie Pierson, Sam Daniel, Pete McCreary, and Sam Daniel. Yale's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mile Relayers Enter Millrose Games | 1/27/1951 | See Source »

The Met-appointed juries were on the conservative side, a fact which had led 28 advance-guard abstractionists to boycott the show (TIME, June 5). Possibly to rebut the allegation that they were just old fuddy-duddies, the jurors toppled over backward, chose whole roomfuls of alfalfa-dry, determinedly subjectless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The State of Painting | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Samuel H. Beer, associate professor of Government, will head the Eliot House panel; McGeorge Bundy, Lecturer on Government, Robert G. McCloskey, assistant professor of Government, Hoke Norris, and Joseph C. Palamountain will appear at Adams House.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Fora | 11/14/1950 | See Source »

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