Word: playing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Negro Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, 28, whose Broadway hit, A Raisin in the Sun (TIME, March 23), was voted Broadway's best by Manhattan's drama critics, was trapped in an embarrassing predicament. Her play chronicles the many miseries and few joys of a poor Negro family in Chicago's ugly South Side slums. Last week the city of Chicago sued Lorraine and four others in her family for not correcting a long list of building-code violations (bad wiring, rats, falling plaster, etc.) in eight tenements owned by the Hansberrys. Location: the ugly South Side slums...
...through law school at the University of Alabama when he switched to Richmond's Union Theological Seminary. But for Alabama-born Seminarian McNeill, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth had separate entrances marked WHITE and COLORED; as a member of the basketball team he refused to play against Richmond's Negro College, Virginia Union, and at an inter-seminary conference he balked at sitting down to lunch with the Negro delegates...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Lee J. Cobb in a play, by Loring Mandel, about a scientist's effort to construct an electronic replica of the human brain...
...Misfortunes of Simone continued when, after World War I, her father lost his money. At the university. Simone strove so relentlessly for her doctorate that she earned her famed nickname. "Beaver." All work and little play did not dull the beaver's tooth for philosophic talk, but the meaning of her own existence seemed empty. Three relationships of the university years gradually opened Simone's eyes to herself. There was her cousin Jacques in whom she saw only a romantic image, although he actually carried on a series of sordid liaisons, finally married for money and died...
...people never discover who is deviling them. The dreamers among them lean to the belief that it is Death himself. Death, for the author, is a grinning morality-play specter with his arm familiarly draped around Everyman, and this theory is the most tenable one that she leaves. Some readers may object that such mysticism is too woolly, but few of them will complain that Author Spark's funerary satire lacks bite. Any reader over 25-the age at which, as Scott Fitzgerald might have said, a man realizes that he must die-will have an uneasy time forgetting...