Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FRANK was a little girl who lived in Nazi-occupied Netherlands and wore a yellow six-pointed star prominently displayed upon her dress. The star was to warn all passersby that she was a Jew. Thousands of Americans who have read Anne's diary and seen the Broadway play, The Diary of Anne Frank, have wondered what happened between the time the Nazis crashed through the thin partition that concealed her attic hiding place and her death at Belsen. For the answer, see FOREIGN NEWS...
...from the shoulders down. For more than four hours, a team of three surgeons worked over him. At week's end sensation and strength were beginning to flow back through his rugged body. But his doctors were cautiously refusing to predict when Campanella would walk again, let alone play baseball...
...Berl Senofsky. The locale: the Metropolitan Museum's small Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium (700 seats). Wrote Taubman next day: "There is something gravely wrong here. Berl Senofsky is an American violinist who beat all comers to win first prize in the Brussels 1955 competition, and he gets to play in New York as guest of the Metropolitan's Young Artists Series. Leonid Kogan, a Russian violinist [TIME, Jan. 27], who won the Brussels prize in 1951. comes to the U.S. and plays here with the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony orchestras." Senofsky has not played...
...could see the tongues, like from a cow, this is not love any more, this is delicatessen!" In the end, of course, both Slezak and Neal went back to their old playmates, having come to know that "the main thing is a little understanding and a little humor." The play had a little of both, thanks to attractive performances and to authentic Seventh Avenue argot by Elick (The Fabulous Irishman) Moll...
...asserts that the moral aim of capitalism is not toil but leisure (leisure here defined not as play but as the "liberal work" of civilization). Real capitalism should bring not only full employment but full enjoyment by men "of the leisure work that machine-produced wealth can make possible...