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...Broadway star who insisted-and proved-that good acting has nothing to do with race; of cancer; in Manhattan. Critical acclaim first came for her portrayal of an overintellectual college girl in A Raisin in the Sun, and she was consistently excellent as the leading lady in The Owl and the Pussycat, Tiger Tiger Burning Bright and James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charley, for which she received a Tony nomination in 1964. She won an Emmy the same year for the best single performance by an actress in a television series (East Side, West Side...
...image for this owl-eyed, leathery stump of wrinkled vitality was Proteus: the Odyssey's old man of the sea, whose power was to assume any form -beast, wave or tree-at will. He is the tutelary saint of virtuosos, and Picasso's virtuosity is the one fact of modern art that everybody knows something about. Stories about it begin in his early childhood. It is said that his father, a provincial art teacher in La Coruna, Spain, turned over his own brushes and paints to this alarming offspring, confessing that little Pablo had already surpassed...
...already have it) that these are dog-days for poets everywhere. It may be indicative of the times that Allen Ginsberg gets top billing at the Quincy House Arts Festival and Rod McKuen can actually be paid (by the editors of Saturday Review) to ask with owl seriousness whether Mao Tse-Tung is really a poet. But the lapses of an uncritical audience aren't the same as the problems of young poets because (as the writers about poetry in the Advocate keep suggesting) young poets don't seem to know what to do with themselves or how they would...