Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. Playhouse. The characters in the four droll and sometimes touching playlets of Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running share a universal preoccupation, sex, as it is used in art, as it wanes in middle age, as it bemuses parents of adolescent children, and as a fading memory of the very...
Born. To Zoe Caldwell, 35, Australian actress who won a Tony for her first big Broadway hit, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Robert Whitehead, 53, her producer in the play: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
...Died. Robert ("Red") Rolfe, 60, baseball great, from 1934 to 1942 third baseman for the then peerless New York Yankees; of cancer; in Laconia, N.H. Though Rolfe was primarily a glove man, he was also a threat at bat (.289 lifetime average) and noted for his game-winning hits. He helped the Yanks to six pennants and five World Series titles, then as a manager in 1950 startled the baseball world by finishing second with a mediocre Detroit Tiger club that had finished fourth the year before. In 1954, he returned to his alma mater, Dartmouth College, where he served...
Director-Scenarist Robert Alan Aurthur is manifestly sympathetic to the black cause. But the film's sincerity is varnished with artifice. The interracial love affair is as uncomfortable as some of the dialogue ("Do you enjoy being a tall, dark secret?"). The film's open-ended references to a mysterious Negro "organization" unfortunately recall the paranoic fantasies of Ian Fleming's Mr. Big in Live and Let Die. Ultimately, The Lost Alan is notable less for what it does than for what its star does not do. After Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, many black...
...knew his Whitman "like a book," Robert Lowell has written, but Whitman was too great an invitation to incoherence, and "The Bridge" is at times incoherent. Crane admitted that in some of his short lyrics the words were chosen in fits of wine-induced ecstasy to the blare of jazz on a victrola. The idea was that the thoughts would blend and fertilize each other magically. Indeed, a few of the individual lyrics have come to seem as imperishable as Blake's. But the magic failed, so the 1920 critics said, when applied to the epic that Crane...