Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sociology: "We spend all our time debunking. We have no heroes, so how can you expect the young people to have any? We destroy them all. We've even done it in the sports world. Kids today feel they have to go all the way back to Babe Ruth to find a hero. Today the only heroes are the ones whom they can't destroy. And who are those? The heroes of the comic strips...
Macbeth has received a modern touch in the Brattle Hall production with William Devlin and Ruth Ford in the title roles. Evenings...
...Brattle Theatre has come heartbreakingly close to putting out a truly great production of "Macbeth." They have missed it not through any deficiency in acting--Ruth Ford and William Devlin are probably the finest actors ever seen on the Brattle stage--but through some unperceptive directing which has taken fantastic liberties with Shakespeare...
These vagaries are more irritating since they detract from what is essentially an inspiring production. Ruth Ford's Lady Macbeth is superb. She is not the Amazonian Lady Macbeth of brute strength and indomitable will; her strength seems to be drawn from an immense source of nervous energy. This, joined with her sensitivity and fragile beauty, makes it seem impossible that she should last as long as she does under the same strain of guilt which overcomes Macbeth. The sleep-walking scene, when the sham is gone and there is nothing left but the subconscious, is the finest moment...
Last week, with the FDA's blessing, Antabuse went on sale for general use on a doctor's prescription. It is no sure cure for alcoholism, but it is a useful crutch for the alcoholic cripple. Antabuse experts such as Manhattan Psychiatrist Ruth Fox argue that the alcoholic's other crutch should be psychiatric treatment. Dr. Fox has used both crutches with 149 patients, and got half of them to quit drinking entirely and another quarter of them well on the way. But Antabuse must be used under a doctor's supervision, warned Dr. Fox: "This...