Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also interferes with the play's effect. It is a rough spectrum of colored flats that are organized into two sets. But the realistic furniture and the intrusive, mammoth Lowell House chandelier make it seem out of place. It would have been funnier, and more striking to have maintained a single convention, constructing a semi-realistic room that would have incorporated the chandelier into a monstrous parody of the traditional...
Frustrated by this situation, Stevenson accepted Senator Paul Douglas' offer of second billing on the Democratic slate. (There's no Illinois gubernatorial election this year.) Douglas, who is in a rough contest with Charles Percy, felt that Stevenson's name would, indeed, help the ticket. Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley agreed to the nomination in spite of Stevenson's endorsement, last spring, of Abner Mikva, who made a bold though unsuccessful bid to unseat one of Daley's men in the U.S. House of Representatives...
...play. On the other hand, the original version has a certain power about it that derives at least in part from its starkness. I have an uneasy feeling that it would be much less appealing to young directors (and audiences) had Buechner lived to finish it and polish the rough edges...
...have no sympathy for members of the audience who hissed the rough (but wholly unharming) treatment given a live cat in one scene; it is a superb cat and doubtless can go at least eight more performances...
...first reactions are any guide, there is rough sledding ahead for the tough curbs on "trial by newspaper" proposed by the American Bar Association's advisory committee on fair trial and free press (TIME, Oct. 7). Its report, as summed up by Columbia Broadcasting System President Frank Stanton last week, "takes us on a walk through beautiful countryside-a countryside of delicate restraints governed by high purposes. But even a hasty examination shows signs that it may also be strewn with land mines of coercion and booby traps of suppression...