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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During much of that time Mrs. Hubbard, who thinks Africa "don't half as dangerous as civilization," lived with the natives in the bush country, often more than 100 miles from any white settlement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe House Mother to Publish Book for Children About Africa | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

...term "experimental theater" could use some amplification, and the plays presented at the Yale festival will serve, if not as the basis for a definition, at least as indicators of how this school of drama looks and sounds. For one thing, experimental plays often are topheavy with abstract ideas. Harvard's contribution to the festival, Jean Genet's Death-watch, and the Wellesley production of a dismal little propaganda piece by Bertolt Brecht entitled Exception and the Rule, served to illustrate the experimental playwrights' reliance on ideology...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Yale Drama Festival | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

...first production of new theatrical groups all too often are, at best, promising. But the newly formed Dunster House Music and Drama Society is an exception. With its production of two operas by Gian-Carlo Menotti, this group has very definitely arrived. From every point of view--singing, acting, staging--The Medium, main feature of the evening, is a superlative theatrical experience. And The Telephone, the curtain-raiser which precedes it, makes a very pleasant comic aperitif...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Medium and The Telephone | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

...intensity of Titus is often enormous, and not at all due only to murder and rape. Some of the murders become tragedies...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: Titus Andronicus | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

Thus "while there is a very real legal, governmental, and philosophical question about the balance between state and federal powers, more often than not the real question at issue is some other matter masquerading as an issue of state and federal rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Urges States to Justify Powers With Better Leadership | 4/12/1957 | See Source »

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