Word: schwartz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite all the publicity Maurice Schwartz and the Yiddish Art Theater have received in New York during the last few years, and despite the favorable criticisms received by the company from the New York critics, there remains a tendency not to believe without seeing. Bostonians now have a chance to see at the Plymouth Theater, where 1947-48's smash, "Shylock and His Daughter," is staying for a five-performance...
...Schwartz's reputation, if last night's performance is an example, is well deserved. With a powerful voice, mature stage presence, and a masterful variety of interpretive effects, Schwartz dominated the stage as he went from pity to scorn, from anger to tragic resignation. Other parts were well-played...
Predictable Ruts. Significantly, the best of Spearhead's younger writers are turning away from technical experiments. In John Berryman's fine story, The Imaginary Jew, in Delmore Schwartz's poetic probing of the Oedipus complex ("the child must carry his fathers on his back"), and in Randall Jarrell's savage war poetry, verbal high jinks are replaced by untortured statement and controlled emotion...
...Dance Committee chairmen from each of the seven Houses and Dudley Hall. Present members include: Cunningham; Edward L. Maguire '46 Eliot); Henry W. Muller '48 (Leverett); J. Rosson Overcash '49 (Kirkland); Douglas Lenkoski '46 (Adams); Samuel M. Robbins '45 (Dunster); Warren C. Smith '48 (Lowell); and Seymour Schwartz '48 (Dudley...
Semi-professional criticism is offered in the few creative writing courses available, but the courses lack the aid of a creative artist to teach either prose on poetry, although Schwartz and Kempton come closer to the mark than Morrison or Spencer. The chief shortcoming in this field is the limited number of students that can be accomodated in the few courses given...