Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago last week, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal and set the stage for the bloody Suez crisis that rocked the world in November 1956. Thereupon, Israel invaded the bleak, sand-blown Sinai Peninsula, ostensibly to destroy guerrilla bases operating against her borders. Then, speaking loftily of "separating the belligerents" and "protecting" the canal, Britain and France ordered Egypt to surrender its control to them; when Egypt refused, they began bombing Cairo and Port Said. In the end, amid the angry protests of the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles and a rattle of rockets...
...like neon, he launches into daring improvisational flights that, however farflung, somehow always resolve themselves into patterns as precise and neatly interlocked as a jigsaw puzzle. "These Russian cats really dig what we have to offer!" exclaimed Hines in Kiev. "They won't let us get off the stage...
...British theater producer and designer, the son of Actress Ellen Terry, who acted with Henry Irving, designed sets for Stanislavsky, was a friend of Max Reinhardt, a foe of George Bernard Shaw, the lover of Isadora Duncan, and a controversial genius widely credited with many of the major stage innovations since the turn of the century; of a stroke; in Vence, France...
...pilgrimage through the metamorphic landscape, Goat-Boy re-enacts some of the known episodes of the life of Christ. He confounds philosophers, has disciples and enemies, is tempted by power and false worship. At one stage, he denies (or asserts) himself: "I'm no Enoch Enoch [God]. I've got as much Billygoat as Graduate [Christ]. And as much as the Dean o' Flunks [the devil] or anyone else." While Barth seems to be crudely baiting religion, he is actually enunciating his concern with the theological conception of the hypostatic nature of Christ-that Christ was both...
Actors and directors who work at the repertory theatre on the Loeb main stage during the summer are given grants-in-aid by the Summer School for their work. Unlike the people who appear in the HDC productions at Agassiz, mostly students at the College or Harvard graduate schools, performers at the Loeb are recruited from drama schools throughout the country...