Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Choir will sing the little-known festival cantata, Jubilate Agno, by Benjamin Britten, in a recital on Nov. 8. Memorial Church will be the scene of the Sunday evening performance...
...only are the disadvantages of NSA membership being lessened, the potential benefits make joining eminently worthwhile. The NSA serves valuable functions domestically and abroad. On the national scene the Student Association is active in bringing issues of academic freedom (such as NDEA) and federal aid to education into the awareness of students and key governmental officials alike...
...Changed Scene. Outstanding among the young realists is 31-year-old John Bratby (TIME, March 12, 1956), who was called in to paint Gulley Jimson's big-footed canvases in the film version of Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth. "It's illogical and mad," Bratby confessed afterwards, "and springs from God knows where, but when the spotlight's on me, I feel enormously encouraged." Last week the spotlight was on Bratby again, with a show in London's Zwemmer Gallery of 28 new oils, turned out at a stupendous clip...
Carmen, Traviata-plus Kurt Weill's Street Scene and a new production of The Mikado. The very variety of the season, he thinks, is a tribute to an audience that cheerfully accepts City Center's small-scaled, tightly budgeted productions. "I don't have to do all the work for this audience," says he. "They don't want just to sit back and feel gorged...
...American) in a British book or movie or play, it is largely because Mr. Williams has written him that way, and because Mr. Hancock has made him sprawl and slouch and lean. When Mr. Gesell is allowed to be nice and ordinary, as in most of his achingly poignant scene with Miss Humphreys, he too does fine work. If I have used word like "poignant" and "pathetic" with depressing frequency in this review, I should like to have used them a great deal oftener; for poignancy and pathos are nearly all The Glass Menagerie has to offer, and the only...