Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northcote Parkinson, author of "Parkinson's Law," and Allen Tate, poet and critic, will teach courses in History and English at the Summer School this year...
...performance of the 20-year-old work, opening with Joan at the stake and flashing back and forth through her persecution, trial and condemnation, revealed the basic weakness in the libretto by France's late Poet-Ambassador (to the U.S. in 1927-33) Paul Claudel: its tendency to reduce a profound, many-faceted conflict to charcoal black and Rinso white. But Bernstein gave the music the surging, evocative reading that its subject demands, kept a near-perfect balance be tween orchestra, soloists and his acres of chorus. Actress Montealegre gave her reading with luminous conviction and a fine sense...
More often than not, Class Day would begin with a full summer sun blazing over the Yard as the senior class marched to Appleton Chapel for baccalaureate services. Afterwards, to Sanders, sticky humid, where the class orator, odist, and poet gave their addresses; and once there formalities had been completed, the senior class marched to the Yard and an abundant spread...
...meets boy and so on through ten scenes and ten partner changes (in one complete Viennese waltz around the dance floor of love.) Prostitute meets soldier who meets parlor maid who meets young gentleman who meets young wife who wants husband (her own) who meets "little miss" who meets poet who meets an actress who meets a count who gets back to the prostitute...
Both the young wife and the actress are played by the wonderfully versatile Jane Cronin, who shifts from coquettish innocence to sophisticated directness. Edward Zang as the poet, is also outstanding in extracting the most out of probably the best lines in the play. Richard Galvin brings a well-trained talent to the part of the inhibited young gentleman and Roz Faber and Mary Weede give appropriate spirit and mock innocence to their roles...