Word: nothingness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shaw insisted on regarding this patently special case of his own contriving as the type for sexual relationships in the real world; on maintaining as the order of existence that women initiate such relationships and men are "the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey"; on reiterating that what...
As the determined Ann Whitefield, who forces Jack Tanner to his knees and her arms, Rosemary Harris makes a delicious seductress, ensnaring her prey with a wonderfully cool, crafty grace. In his stage directions Shaw calls Ann "one of the vital geniuses," and Tanner says, referring to her, "Vitality in...
"Broadway has done everything to destroy the American theatre in the smug knowledge that nothing can destroy it," said Louis Kronenberger, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of English, last Thursday evening.
> Hemingway: "'You were all right in there. How did you know what you'd find? There might have been a rat . . .' 'It was nothing,' the Colonel shrugged, doing it well, a thing not really usually done well at all . . . We sat with our brandies, keeping...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera, but nothing can prevent the show's songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl...