Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage has been set for what could become one of the most important labor-management battles in recent years. Neither side will budge and, come a few months, the truckers of the nation will start to reap tremendous profits as the railroads grind to a stop. In the long run, however, the entire cost of the strike will be borne by the American tire cost of the strike will be borne by the American public--an all-too common occurrence these days...
...deep conviction that it is not only an intrinsically great play but that it sets the model from which great poetic drama may hope to flow in our times." And, indeed, Ciardi contended that "MacLeish's great technical achievement is in his forging of a true poetic stage line for our times." Dismissing Eliot, Auden, Fry, and lesser ilk as failures in this respect, he pointed out that "until now, no one since Shakespeare has found a sufficient answer to the problems that arise from the combination of poetry and the stage ... Only MacLeish has found the line that teaches...
...then, on the cold, wet night of December eleventh, 1958--just eight short months after John Ciardi had despaired of a major professional production for years to come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived...
...standards, Europe's supermarket boom is still in its infant stage. Most of the new self-service stores are not super-duper markets in the giant, U.S. sense, rarely have more than 3,000 sq. ft. of floor space (v. 10,000 for the average U.S. super), stock only an average of 1,000 to 2,000 items (v. 5,600 in U.S. markets). Some stores still do not sell frozen foods, leave the meat to the outside butcher; only a few are big enough to produce their own brands of canned goods. But they all have one thing...
...Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Thornton Wilder's modern classic, Our Town, with Carney as the stage manager who tells all because he knows...