Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University has agreed to sell the lot on Memorial Drive between Akron and Hingham Streets to the group of citizens that has been planning the 80-unit project. The final decision whether to put the plans into actual operation will follow within a month, McLay said...
...excellent proposal to found an Arts Center on a stretch of riverbank land adjoining Soldiers Field Road has come to seem less a cultural crusade than a political power play. Plans drawn up by the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center ("MeBAC"), a group formed to direct the project, threaten not only to ruin local classical drama companies by excluding them from the Center, but also, because of this apparent inequity, to founder the whole project before it gets under...
...delegate broad responsibility to a group such as MeBAC, it should make certain that no one theatrical company is given a monopoly on its board such as the Cambridge Drama Festival now holds. This would not only dispel the charges of unfairness that now jeopardize the Arts Center project, but the valuable theatrical experience of a boader range of people on the MeBAC board might well benefit the Center in its hazardous task of launching a repertory theatre...
...Frederic March or Sir John Gielgud could do with the leading role; any lesser actor would be over-parted. Robert A. Brooks, who takes the part at Kresge, has the proper dignity of bearing, and makes a noble stage figure. If he is insufficiently heroic, if he does not project the proper intensity of fanaticism, if he is not completely at home with the witty Doctor's epigrams, still he has moments of great effectiveness. Earle Edgerton and Dean Gitter play the murderers with unflagging grim conviction, though they do not capitalize on the grotesque idiosyncrasies that Thomas outlined...
Questions to be raised at the hearing include whether or not the Soldiers Field Road site is proper for a project sponsored by the MDC, the Group 20 member noted. He said that "some people think the site of the new arts center should be in Boston...