Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Embarrassed? No. Pain, yes. Pain for me because I hate human misery and wrote a play which said so [A Raisin in the Sun). Pain about you, because you couldn't care less. And pain for my beleaguered family, surrounded by imposed frozen financing, in a city that says it wants repairs [June...
This year, things have been looking up for Hoad. At 24, he is seven years younger than Gonzales, never seems to tire on the court. More important, he is beginning to match Gonzales' ferocious concentration. When his thinking is cool and his strokes are hot, Hoad can play an overwhelming brand of tennis. Flatfooted, he can hit a backhand with a flick of his powerful wrist with so much top spin that the ball seems to zoom off the turf like a maddened hornet...
...stage the show has an intimate, itch-and-scratch-it folksiness that makes even the dull spots endearing. On the colossal Todd-AO screen. Catfish Row covers a territory that looks almost as big as a football field, and the action often feels about as intimate as a line play seen from the second tier. What the actors are saying or singing comes blaring out of a dozen stereophonic loudspeakers in such volume that the spectator almost continually feels trapped in the middle of a cheering section...
Visually, The Nun's Story is almost dazingly beautiful. The colors are rich and sensuous, the light innocent and cool; and when light and color play together on the medieval stones of Bruges or Brussels, the screen glows like an awakened frame of old Vermeer. Dramatically, the film has been admirably conceived and impressively executed. Religiously, it is rather shallow. There is merit in the picture's painstaking effort to convey the physical reality of convent life, but somewhere the spiritual reality is lost. The radiant pageant of devotion ravishes the senses, but it does not touch...
...past, the Harvard Summer School will play host to a group of outstanding young professional leaders from many countries of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. They will attend The International Seminar, which is under the direaction of Henry A. Kissinger, associate professor of Government, and Associate Director of the Center for International Studies...