Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Feeling that the plays of his day "tried to capture verisimilitude, not reality," Wilder set out to write plays that would exist against the largest dimensions of time and space. Our Town solves the problems of stagecraft by avoiding them. "There's some scenery for those who think they have to have scenery," comments the Stage Manager when two trellises are pushed out onto the stage. There are lighting directions--and Lewis Lehman's lighting was effective--but one has the feeling that the play could get by on the one bare bulb which shines on the stage...
...Whereas residents consume valuable dormitory space, commuters are a kind of "super-cargo," and in the face of tougher and tougher competition, the local boy will find it increasingly easier to gain admission to Harvard as a commuter than, say, to Yale as a resident. More and more, he will have to choose between "living in" at a less than first rate college, or living with his family and attending Harvard...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., May 6--A U.N. committee approved today a United States plan for getting the world started on international cooperation in the peaceful use of outer space...
...Soviet Union, India, and three other nations boycotted the opening meeting of the group. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge proposed to the 18-nation Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space that it set up two separate study groups--one on the scientific and the other on the legal aspects of the subject...
...Cliffe officials delayed renewing the lease until they were certain that the space would be needed. Mrs. Imogene Fish, associated dean of residence, said recently that Radcliffe will have a larger number of students in residence next year than had previously been anticipated. Eighty early admittance candidates have already received places in the Class...