Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started back in 1952 when Morey Bernstein, a Colorado businessman, was giving a demonstration of hypnosis after a club dance. There he met a lively young brunette named Ruth Simmons who was "on the smallish side" and a good social dancer. She also, he soon discovered, had the "ability to enter an uncommonly deep trance while under hypnosis." Despite the objection of her husband Rex ("Look, I just want to sell insurance and be a regular guy; I don't want to be dubbed a crackpot or a screwball"), Bernstein convinced her to go on a trip through her prenatal...
Much of his teaching, however, consists of informal work with students who come to him with their own poetry. His sympathetic enthusiasm makes him an ideal audience. His criticism, delivered with vigorous precision, is helpful and encouraging. In their early years, poets like Leslie Fiedler, Ruth Stone, and Delmore Schwartz benefited from Sweeney's sponsorship...
...second disappointment was the all-American cast. For once, the Met stage was peopled by young, handsome, slender performers. But their Juilliard-type excellence somehow did not thrill. Baritone Theodor Uppman tried hardest and succeeded best as Papageno, the comical birdman; partly thanks to Ruth and Thomas Martin's competent translation, he put across his role with almost Broadway-like punch. Soprano Lucine Amara (Pamina) sang beautifully, and Roberta Peters (Queen of the Night) did her bell-like best despite a cold. But Tenor Brian Sullivan (Tamino) was dry-voiced and stiff-backed; Basso Jerome Hines, while...
...Institute's attitude toward its women is mainly one of acceptance, according to Ruth L. Bean, Dean of Women. It doesn't exclude them, she says, but it makes not special effort to advertise the fact that it will accept them. Why do they come? Mostly because of a dedication to science or alumni pressures but sometimes because of the ratio...
Playwrights '56 (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Horton Foote's Flight, starring Kim Stanley, Ruth Hussey...