Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play has been trimmed to a running-time of three hours and a half, with one intermission about two-thirds through. In the parade of murdered ghosts, most tellingly staged, the victims address Richard alone and all the balancing apostrophes to Richmond are omitted; these really ought to be restored...
...Theodore F. Adams, pastor, First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va., former president (1955-60) of the Baptist World Alliance...
Last week, at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital in Richmond, Dr. Boyd Withers Haynes Jr. had two burn patients recovering rapidly in virtually germ-free surroundings, thanks to an ingenious device. The "Life Island," as its inventor, Frank E. Matthews, an ex-Navyman, calls it, looks like a plastic bubble completely enclosing the hospital bed. It has a console of Buck Rogers gadgets at the foot. Dr. Haynes is testing two Life Islands for the U.S. Army Surgeon General's office, and there is another at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto...
...Virginia, Richmond Republican Leader Richard Poage charges that Lodge "was lazy as hell during the campaign-he helped defeat the ticket." Recalls a Western manager for the 1960 ticket: "We had a big event scheduled for Lodge in Albuquerque. He got as far as St. Louis, then had to turn back home as his nerves were frazzled and he was worn out physically." New York State Chairman Fred Young calls Lodge "a tea-and-crumpets candidate...
These directors have actors of their own caliber to work with. Almost every voice meets the stiff test of Aeschylus' verse as translated by Richmond Lattimore. And not content with giving us the lush lines, they have given us memorable characters. No one who was in Sanders Theatre last night will ever forget Joan Tolentino's Clytemnestra. "A woman merely," she describes herself, yet she dominates the stage. She outfaces Agamemnon; she towers over Aegisthus (and the directors emphasize this by placing her a level above him on the stage as she snaps down the Argive elders...