Word: prefering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is only one trend in the American theatre, and that trend is Eli Kazan.... I certainly don't know anyone whom actors venerate so much. But he seems to prefer plays concerned with extremes of pain, extremes of guilt, extremes of hysteria. Now there are a lot of awfully good plays on that subject"; here he instances Oedipus Rex. But "Oedipus expiates for the sake of his entirectiy," while the heroes of J.B. and Sweet Bird of Youth (the two plays most recently directed by Kazan) are concerned in their expiation only with themselves. "Somehow the connection between strong...
...people), Tynan turned and said by way of valediction: "If you write anything about me do say that all these remarks are based on the assumption that there will be any theatre or any anything a couple of years from now." If offered the choice, he said, he would prefer to see the destruction of every work of art in the world rather than a "preventative" war with Russia. "I don't think any of the arts are more important than ... the question of survival...
...treachery of two young painters, E. Sazykin and Andreev, who had been commissioned to paint collective farm life in the town of Bondari. Instead, they were doing a brisk business painting icons and murals for the local Russian Orthodox church. On the ground that it was rank ingratitude to prefer "the dark corners of churches" to "the radiant creativeness" of Soviet life, the art committee expelled them...
...Kremlin hoped to keep its influence in both Arab camps. But could the Kremlin restrain its Iraqi partisans without in time destroying their enthusiasm? And was it enough for the Kremlin to remind Nasser sensibly of his economic dependence on Moscow? That unpredictable man had been known before to prefer pride to profit...
Yearling companies often go on the AmEx for "seasoning," hope to graduate to the New York Exchange. Last week, for example, Desilu Productions Inc., of TV's Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, joined the AmEx ranks. Even after they grow big and strong, some companies prefer to stay on the AmEx because it requires fewer financial reports, permits nonvoting stock to be listed...