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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There's no reason why realism shouldn't be poetic in its effect... But now that Kazan is beginning to impose on realistic plays like Sweet Bird and Cat [on a Hot Tin Roof] an operatic style, I think it's dangerous and forced." The mainstream of American drama ("I hate to use phrases like 'mainstream,'" says Tynan) has to do with "observable reality. I think--let's be frank--that Kazan has moved too far away from that without the moral or social realities that are necessary to sustain it. Even in a play like Our Town ... the performances...
Night had settled upon the roof of the world. With a jingling of harness and the clipclop of hooves, a small caravan wound slowly up the 17,000-ft. pass. Ahead lay the snowy summits of the Himalayas, an ocean of wind-whipped peaks and ranges that have served Tibet as a rampart since time began. Cavalrymen with slung rifles spurred forward; state officials in furs, wearing the dangling turquoise earrings of their rank, sat tiredly in the saddle; rangy muleteers in peaked caps with big earlaps goaded the baggage train up the steep path. As they passed a cairn...
...Trieste, De Henriquez got his passion from childhood musings over the battle souvenirs of his Portuguese ancestors, who for 900 years had fought in many European armies (two were Austrian field marshals). Too young for World War I, De Henriquez fascinatedly watched the bombardment of Trieste from his roof while others cowered in cellars, at war's end begged and bought heaps of surplus materiel...
Born. To Joanne Woodward, 29, Hollywood's 1957 Oscar-winning "best actress" (Three Faces of Eve), and Paul Newman, 34, actor of stage (Sweet Bird of Youth) and screen (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof): their first child, a daughter (he has three children by an earlier marriage) ; in Manhattan. Name: Elinor Theresa...
...adventuresome clients began going to Architect Wright's studio in Oak Park, Ill. In the midst of architects busy designing picturesque Queen Anne-style houses and neoclassic copies, Wright lopped off gables and pillars with a stroke of his pencil, created his own prairie houses. He flattened the roof to parallel the earth line, projected eaves to enforce the sense of shelter. Taking the fireplace and low. massive chimney as a central pivot. Wright began to project exuberant wings, bring balconies into living rooms, replace the dark corners with glass...