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...happens, O'Neill's fears wee justified; the play was presented on Broadway and is now being revived at the Loeb. Director Kathy Placzek has tried to improve the script by eliminating superfluous speeches and undeveloped sub-themes. Her cuts are sound and exceptionaly smooth, but the play needs more mending than a director can provide...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Mansions in Need of Repair | 10/23/1974 | See Source »

...KATHY PLACZEK could not have altered the abrupt and implausible reversals in attitude that the three family members display. Nor could she have removed certain elements of the plot that seem ludicrous. For example, shortly after Deborah has resolved never to communicate with Simon again, considering him lost to his common Irish biddy, she is forced by financial hardship to ask his charity. She does so only after great deliberation, and then almost instantaneously decides to become a loving mother-in-law as well. This unnatural, almost absurd changes of heart towards Sara makes Deborah's subsequent rapport with...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Mansions in Need of Repair | 10/23/1974 | See Source »

...Wright plays the Chorus, John Gower, with a comic subtlety which is a delightful change from Elizabethan bombastics. Like the rest of the cast he spares the audience inexpert attempts at British English, a wise decision on the part of the director Kathy Placzek. Wright's part is an open trap to overacting, but he makes no attempt to steal attention from the action of the play. Diana Chase plays a superbly wicked Dionyza, which she accents with a very low neckline and feline movements. It is probably unfair to list the attributes of the principals, for this cast shares...

Author: By Peter Y. Solmssen, | Title: New, Improved Shakespeare | 12/1/1973 | See Source »

...Institute has achieved almost equal renown in physics, thanks in part to the presence of such formative thinkers as Einstein and Niels Bohr. Discoveries recorded there include Oppenheimer's work in particle physics, George Placzek's separation of slow neutrons from solids. Among its historians, probably the most influential is Art Historian Erwin Panofksy, author of the definitive biography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scholars: Paradise in Princeton | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...summary: HARVARD NORTHEASTERN Wenner, l.f. r.f., Symancyk Calderara O'Connell, Glenn, r.f. l.f., Tiffany Upton Pierce Burns, c. c., Northrop Gregory Rex, l.g. r.g., Placzek Farrell, Mahady, r.g. Orcadi, MacDonald...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD QUINTET WINS FIRST TILT | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

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