Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are those who would question this analysis. There are those who would say: 1) that there is nothing more in this play than is contained in the beer glasses raised in the final scene, that the movie is essentially comic. There are those who would say: 2) that the answer to the query of the title is summarized in two words "Swing it" (in the best metaphysical sense of the term). In answer to these cynics, who will remain nameless at this time, I can only say 1) that they must remember that there is often a thin line...
Members of the Ivy League and six other Eastern schools have recently registered opposition to the anti-subversion provision of the National Defense Education Act. The regulation in question would require all recipients of federal stipends under the act to disclaim in writing any belief in "subversive movements...
While this idea seems completely laudable, its execution is open to question. For it happens that the plan's originators were officials of the Cambridge Drama Festival, a non-profit repertory theatre of the sort for which the Arts Center theatre is intended. The CDF is certainly to be thanked for this initiative, and it is understandable, though perhaps unwise, that three of the nine MeBAC members are CDF representatives. MeBAC has now ruled, however, that exclusive use of the Arts Center theatre during the first season is to be given to the CDF, and it has refused to offer...
...rich, interesting failure; the Poets' Theatre has gratified this expectation by presenting the world premiere of The Doctor and the Devils. In it Thomas takes on the problem of the existence in a comfortable and cultured city of the vilest depths of misery and degradation, and the question of whether a good end can justify any means. The first of these great issues is largely muffled in Dickensian-Hogarthian picturesqueness for the slums, and clumsy, over-literary, rhetorical prose for the cultured quarters. The second problem, once stated, is largely ignored...
...conspiratorial caprices, where the stupendous clash of incompatible ideologies generates a maelstrom of incredible tautological complexity which, if only time would allow, I would be delighted to analyze down to the most delicate detail, but with the grader's forbearance I shall now go on to the next question...