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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once it nears its Auden-inspired moral ("We must love one another-or die"), Kataki is becalmed. For its first half, the play, however pawed, ticks with time-bomb suspense; toward the end, there is merely the tame metronome's beat marking empty theatrical time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...time he was 19, looking for his first job as a draftsman in Chicago. His mother had destined him from the cradle to be an architect, hung his room with woodcuts of English cathedrals, hand-raised him according to the advanced Froebel kindergarten with its great emphasis on creative play with geometric blocks. Summertimes his mother's family, the Lloyd-Joneses-bearded, hymn-singing Welshmen who still boasted of their Druid motto. "Truth Against the World''-gave him a lesson in farm work that Wright later recalled as "working from tired to tired." His father, an unstable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Native Genius | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter that link audience and cast in this honestly observed and superlatively acted first play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...match was at Governor Dummer in South Byfield, Mass. In the first position George Duffy and Bruce Johnston won with a score of 76 in match team play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Skiers Beat Dartmouth; Golfers Triumph | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Crimson's victory against M.I.T. was by a 5-2 margin. Dodge won his match 4 and 3 against Bob Rosenfield. The Williams match was another close 4-3 score, with Dodge beating Bob Julius 2 and 1 for Julius' first defeat in two years of intercollegiate play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Skiers Beat Dartmouth; Golfers Triumph | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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