Word: richard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemingly under the sway of collective hypnosis, unanimously hailed the Williams drama. Said the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Enormously exciting." The Times's Brooks Atkinson called it "one of Mr. Williams' finest dramas." The most startling display of devotion came from the Post's Richard Watts, who said the play had a "haunting fascination" but poked three logical holes in the script, then concluded: "It must be a tribute to the play that such queries did disturb...
William Kelley as Agate, who leads the strike call at the end, goes ape more extravagantly than any of the others, but every grin and every sob is controlled and effective. Mr. Kelley is excellent, and Ronald Coralian, Richard Dozier, Betsy Bartholet, and Harvey White also do good work. James Matisoff, Mikel Lambert, and Robert Gamble also give satisfactory performances according to their lights, but all three seemed to me miscast...
Under Liz Stearns' direction the performance is a good one, and Richard Smithies brings to it considerable brilliance of his own. "My part is not an heroic one," says Anouilh's Creon, but in Mr. Smithies portrayal he is at least deeply sympathetic. What, after all, is a competent, compassionate, conscientious king to do when his niece insists upon being executed? "... the work is there to be done," he says, "and a man can't fold his arms and refuse to do it. They say it's dirty work. But if we didn't do it, who would...
...About Richard E. Pipes, a research fellow at the Center, Guber was more controversial. Speaking of Pipes' book, Formation of the Soviet Union; Communism and Nationalism, Guber said, it is "founded on a large group of sources and literature; however, the interpretation by Professor Pipes of the most important stages of U.S.S.R. history was exposed by Soviet historians to decisive and fair criticism in the press, and even in meetings with the author in Moscow...
...charge of his chief divisions. He hired Mitch Miller to run the popular-record division "despite the whoopdedoo because he was an oboe player and wore a beard." He gets along famously with artists ("I like creative people"), has lured many of them to Columbia, partly because, as Richard Rodgers says, "Goddard and his people make you feel a little more appreciated." Lieberson has a good ear for trends-though he can sometimes prove hard of hearing. He thought rock 'n' roll was an undesirable and fleeting fad, refused to record the tunes till Columbia had lost millions...