Word: properity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than ever, the women's pages concern themselves with ordinary women, and women whose skin happens not to be white. An article that appeared in the New York Times took umbrage at beauticians who lack the know-how to make up Negro women properly. The Oakland (Calif.) Tribune gives just as much space to Negro social functions as to white. "We don't make a crusade of this," says Executive Editor Paul Minolas. "But a major proportion of our community is Negro, and we consider it proper to include news about them...
...longer true. And yet, says New York Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary, "the policeman can shoot to kill if he reasonably believes that the person at whom he shot was committing a felony or escaping from a felony. The rule raises a substantial moral question: Is it proper to take the life of a fleeing felon who, if caught, tried and convicted, could not be executed?" Answering his own question, Leary has just promulgated a new department rule that requires his 28,000 policemen to shun guns unless a felony suspect "has himself escalated matters by using or threatening deadly...
...could possibly find the right man to succeed the nation's best-known liberal Protestant preacher. Last week, when Fosdick's successor announced his intention to retire in June because of a heart condition, the same kind of question was asked: Where could the committee find a proper successor to the Rev. Robert James McCracken...
...stage space. To be on stage is to be in the middle of the action. Midsummer Night's Dream, inconveniently is punctuated by the discovery of a sleeping character by his lover, rival or master. It is not necessary that characters be concealed in subterranean niches until the proper moment, but surely it is not desirable that they be left like public statues in mid-stage. The scene in which Hermia and Helena tear at each other becomes silly because of the fidgetings of onlookers who could be set apart from the women if there were a larger stage...
...four lovers are passable, with each of them rising toward something better and then slipping back. Mark Ritts as Demetrius, for example, avoids the traditional Shakespearean sing-song by offering some of his lines in street English, hardly the proper form. Generally the lovers do too much serious embracing. This is not Albee. Nothing is going to come of it on stage...