Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...works, it enables audiences to follow Beaumarchais' drama from the Count's frivolous courtship of Rosina through their tragi-comic marriage. Rossini's music for the first play perfectly reflects its brittle stylized comedy. And the score of Mozart's "sequel" (actually written thirty years earlier) given to the older characters an almost bitter-sweet maturity...
...objection to such a tour is that the editors applying range in age from 29 to 40--not exactly the counter-part of American undergraduates. Still, if the Soviet government wants to send older and more hardened Communists, the only result would be harmful press reactions. Another reason for refusal is the McCarran Act, which prohibits the entry of Communists into the U.S. But exceptions are possible, as in the case of Soviet delegates to the United Nations or to special meetings...
Separation of the two undergraduate institutions provides definite advantages that do not apply to the graduate schools. The small size of Radcliffe's college gives its students personal attention, while they can enter into extra-curricular activities without feeling swamped by the University's bigness. But the older graduate student generally has no use for either the administrative attention or the activities of the college; amalgamation of the two schools, on the other hand, would provide both her and Harvard with very real advantages...
...Hour offered another TV version of Henri Bernstein's The Thief (Kraft TV Theater did the same play in 1952), with Paul Lukas, Diana Lynn, Mary Astor and James Deane. An old-school melodrama, The Thief tells of an idealistic young man who takes the responsibility for an older woman's momentary weakness. The play, as well as the actors, was better in its parts than in its whole, but it made a satisfactory 60 minutes...
...love with the shade she raised; the mother, scatterbrained and scatterhearted, who is shackled to the remembered lover; and the young man's cousin, a great ruin of a woman, who suddenly presents a claim of her own to the dead love. The bond between the two older women, one strangely dominating the other's life, might once have grown into a whole Gothic novel, but no Goth is Author Bowen: her plot twists are in the mind, her castles are moated by irony rather than romance. It is the kind of story where mood is action: each...