Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year 1958 provided serious theatregoers in the Boston area with a good deal of summer dramatic fare. The season as a whole fell somewhat short of last summer's level, which was the highest within memory. Still, there were plenty of things this summer to be especially thankful...
...most gifted of our young men of letters is Gore Vidal. Having attained high esteem through his novels, TV dramas, movie scripts, short stories and literary criticisms, he has now successfully taken the legitimate stage into his domain with his comedy Visit to a Small Planet, which recently finished a Broadway run of almost 400 performances...
Mason's vehicle was Vina Delmar's Midsummer, a sentimental comedy that had a short Broadway run in 1953. The play is not very substantial; but it is at east completely written, though the beginning is unfocussed and there are evidences of obvious padding...
...eyes belong to a short, unshaven, portly young man with a Saragossa shock of black hair, a pair of plaid suspenders, a polka-dot bow tie, and the look of John L. Lewis with a beer bottle benignancy. His shoe-soles are worn to a sharp angle and he occasionally scratches...
Last February, the CEP, headed by Dean Bundy and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, issued a short but significant report containing far-reaching proposals for amending Honors and non-Honors instruction. Guided by its belief that "many able students are not doing their best under existing conditions, because they are not sufficiently engaged or challenged," the Committee presented to the Faculty what has since been termed the "Honors for all" program...