Word: roped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many moments of purest comedy and tragedy. The pantomines, at their best, were like a liquid silver which filters through the fingers with a beauty that could be touched and felt, yet not held. For comedy there was "Walking Against the Wind," "Tug of War," and "The Tight Rope Walker." "Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death" was justly accorded awe-filled silence by the capacity audiences in Sanders Theater...
...Rope Dancers (by Morton Wishengrad) is that once-or-twice-a-season sort of play that is unsuccessful but "interesting." It introduces to Broadway a playwright who is almost struttingly grim, carrying larger-sized luggage than he can fill; but who seems altogether resolved to go his own way, even if he lose his way in the process. Laid in a turn-of-the-century Manhattan tenement, The Rope Dancers is a stubbornly harsh story of a lacerated family. Hard-working Margaret Hyland is a rigid, arrogant, unappeasably bitter woman with a lazy, feckless would-be writer of a husband...
...fancily tragic, The Rope Dancers is nowhere facilely sentimental; it nowhere stoops to conquer. And beyond a certain feeling for character, 43-year-old Playwright Wishengrad in his first play has his own determined way of looking at things. Once he sees only what is there, it should prove rewarding...
...down to Dillon Field House late some afternoon, you'll find a large group of young men doing modern dancing, weight-lifting, tumbling, calisthenics, rope-climbing, and trampoline work...
...upstate Newport one day last week, Jean G. Archambault, a 21-year-old farmer, seemed to prove the commissioner's point. Worried about finances and about plans to leave the land to work in a plywood plant, he walked out to the barn, tossed a rope over a rafter, adjusted a noose and hanged himself...