Word: schwartzes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone who thinks action isn't the soul of the drama --or who never quite understood what Aristotle meant when he said it is--should go to the Ex tonight or tomorrow and see Joel Schwartz's The Ladder and A Short History of Tightrope Walkers. Neither play is particularly good; one might easily claim that they're terrible. But they do demonstrate strikingly how much a dramatist can get away with, providing he keeps things happening...
...story, no matter how simple or stupid, can be made to hold an audience's attention. It isn't the import, it isn't the lines; it's seeing live people perform. For with the slenderest of ideas, a bit of showmanship, and the sense not to overdo, Schwartz kept more than 100 people in their seats for almost an hour and a half--and kept them from fidgeting...
Admittedly Schwartz gets a big assist from his actors, who are uniformly good. It is worth going just to see Kay Bourne. But Schwartz himself must get some of the credit for recognizing how fascinating even the simplest gesture can be, if well executed. I think, in fact, he was so fascinated he staged The Ladder to play to slowly; but he had the right idea...
Among the signatories were Abram Bergson, Director of the Russian Research Center; Melvin Croan '53, assistant professor of Government; Merle E. Fainsod, Carl H. Pforsheimer, University Professor; Richard E. Pipes, professor of History; and Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government...
...corner the Khrushchev story, the Times mustered all three of its house Kremlinologists-Harry Schwartz, who knows Soviet economics, Harrison E. Salisbury, who can read Pravda and Izvestia without a pony, and Max Frankel, who taps Russian experts in the State Department. Foreign News Editor Emanuel Freedman calmly placed a phone call to Moscow 955477, three hours later was talking to the Times's Moscow Bureau Chief Henry Tanner. In the meantime, other messages had been relayed to Tanner through the Times's London and Paris bureaus...