Word: scene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beckett, Behrman says, "I did wait for Godot, but I found he had nothing to offer me." Beckett, he adds, avoids a problem by never having Godot enter the scene, and "I imagine that if he did come in he would utter a platitude. I hate wisdom by implication; it smacks of intellectual chicanery." He recalls a course in Croce that he took at Harvard: "He said that you have no ideas until you have expressed them; there is no such thing as having good ideas and not being able to put them into words...
Tomorrow's Harvard-Yale swimming extravaganza takes on added importance because of the impending retirement of two giants from the coaching scene. Both Crimson varsity mentor Hal Ulen and the Elis' Bob Kiphuth will coach the final dual meets of their careers when the two teams vie for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League championship...
...virtues as a showcase for the company, however, Six Characters is not an ideal choice. The unfinished story of the Six is a dreary bourgeois "tragedy," more or less Ibsenite in tone, revolving around a scene where a man's long-lost wife (Miss England) bursts in and stops him from fornicating with a prostitute, because the prostitute is his step-daughter. I am not giving anything away in revealing this, because the Stepfather (Mr. Reinhardt) and Stepdaughter (Miss Landey) spend a good deal of time standing around chewing the fat about this scene before they ever get to playing...
...based roughly on a prophetic 1902 novel entitled The Purple Cloud). By all reports, despite a clumsy story it is Belafonte's best acting job to date. Writer-Director Ranald MacDougall was surprised by Belafonte's chameleon ability to take on the emotional coloration of almost any scene he was playing. At one point Belafonte was required to go into a wrecked church, sit down in a pew and cry. "I didn't give him any direction on this," says MacDougall, "but he cried. Oh, God, how he cried!" On screen or off, Belafonte has a kind...
Author Grossman is managing editor of East Europe, a serious magazine published by the Free Europe Committee, but in this first novel he is also a cynical commentator on the U.S. scene. He is obviously convinced that there is something hollow at the core of American life. Willard-Hugo can be devastating as he describes a suburban party given by Cairo Joy's married sister. He raises hob with giveaway shows, the pornographic-picture trade along Times Square, the shallow mind of little Miss Average whose only coup in life is the landing of a husband...