Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, one New York critic commented that Nazism and anti-Semitism were not fit subjects for a humorous approach. "He was dead wrong," Behrman says, pointing out that Franz Werfel had told him the true story from which the play was taken at Max Reinhardt's Hollywood home. "Also present was the composer Arnold Schonberg; they were all refugees who had lost everything to the Nazis, but they all laughed themselves sick. The capacity to laugh is the strongest thing in people...
...present, Behrman is working on a long profile of Beerbohm for the New Yorker and attempting to raise enough money for Houghton Library to obtain the 25-year correspondence between the "incomparable Max" and Frederick Turner (it was Turner who said, when the dying Oscar Wilde told him of dreaming of supping with the dead, "I'm sure, Oscar, you were the life and soul of the party."). The New Yorker series on Beerbohm is likely to grow into a book, as did The Worcester Account (on which The Cold Wind and the Warm is based) and Duveen...
Campus Americans for Democratic Action will present the statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is currently holding hearings on the matter. A group of HLU members, who are also officers in the national organization of Campus ADA, drew up the report...
...most one can say against the idea is that in the present belligerent mood of Congress it is idealistic. No one can expect a Congress which makes such a point of scrutinizing every expenditure for foreign aid to relinquish its control immediately. But UN Secretary-General Hammarskjold is very eager to get plans for such a pool of experts underway. If he can convince the State Department and if it can convince Capitol Hill, a valuable replacement for present unsatisfactory aid programs can be initiated...
...several months, and, with any luck, for many years, a series of good and great plays, adventurously chosen and well performed, will be constantly on view in Boston. Congratulations to Stephen Aaron '57, John Eyre '58, and Dean Gitter '56, the managing directors of the company. Congratulations to audiences, present and future, for being in on what promises to be a damn good thing...