Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honors went to Max Adrian, the "old, dangling" Sir Peter Teazle, and Cavada Humphrey, his young bride Lady Teazle. Adrian is a past master of timing and comic acting--a second "incomparable Max." And, as usual, it was a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction...
...past summers there has usually been at least one member of the company who showed exceptional acting talent. This year there was none. The repertory was also somewhat below par: The Reluctant Debutante, The Mousetrap, A Clearing in the Woods, Tartuffe, The Torchbearers, and Green Grow the Lilacs...
...America with only his pride, are simple folk whose love is such a habit it becomes part of them. For Nora Melody, superbly played by Helen Hayes, her husband is the same grand man who plucked her from amongst the pigs and made her his wife. Her love reaches past respect, for in Melody's rowdy pretense there is little to respect. She is as blind to his failure as she is to any threat to her love...
...dixie has its troubles in the Harvard area, modern jazz is not much better off. Yet during the past few years people have noticed a remarkable internal shift in Harvard jazz activity from the day when it was "all dixie with a modern jazz splinter" to today, when a student can remark: "Dixie's joe-college stuff; you find it in your state universities, or maybe at Brown, but it's out of place here." In the opinion of most observers Steve Kuhn, more than any other force, has caused this change to a modern jazz approach from...
...homme engage -the ideologically committed man. He is unlike Antipov. the revolutionary idealist who thinks he can remake the world and shoots himself when he finds his dream betrayed; and he is unlike his own father, the dead libertine, symbol of a dead Russia. Zhivago worships neither the past nor the forces that act in the name of the future. His philosophy is: "People must be drawn to good by goodness...