Word: stagings
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With McCarthyism at its peak in 1952 and 1953, it took a good deal of courage to write and stage The Crucible. The play was picketed not only by a number of right-wing groups, but also by the American Bar Association on the grounds that its portrayal of the 17th-century Puritan judges was unsympathetic. Ironically, in 1954 Miller himself was denied a passport to attend the Brussels premiere of this very play because the State Department felt he was supporting the Communist movement...
...towns were rising, a Canadian immigrant in the land ocean. He rode the rails as far as he could, climbed off and asked about the opportunities for a cobbler. Somebody said there was a new town off about 20 miles, called Greenfield, Iowa. No train there. No stage. He walked, liked the place, sent for his family of six back in Ontario. My father's father, being the eldest son, shepherded them all safely to their new home. The family started a newspaper, helped build the town. My father recalled as a young boy being loaded onto the handlebars...
...that has made a strong recovery with a sharply reduced rate of inflation. Perhaps because people take prosperity for granted and fail to give credit to the President's adroit economic management, the issue has not yet clicked for him. Ford's most potent weapon at this stage is the series of polls showing that he would do somewhat better than Reagan against Jimmy Carter in November. Public Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich reported last week that should Carter stumble, the "swing voters" who generally determine the outcome of presidential elections might well turn to Ford as an "honest...
...cheers that are sweeping the Paris Opera mark the triumph of this spring's new sensation: Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste. They mark the triumph too of the "reformers" who are determined to abolish the exaggerated trills and cadenzas of the Italian stage. Writes Britain's Charles Burney, author of the erudite new General history of Music: "The chevalier Gluck is simplifying music . . . He tries all he can to keep his music chaste." Retorts popular Librettist Pietro Metastasio: Gluck is a composer of "surprising fire...
...instance. General John ("Gentleman Johnny") Burgoyne transformed Faneuil Hall, the Patriot meetinghouse, into a playhouse. There he mounted productions of his own works, notably the scurrilous anti-American satire The Blockade of Boston. (Justice was poetically served, however, when the British actor-soldiers were unceremoniously routed from the stage in mid-performance last January by news of an American attack on their Charlestown strong-hold.) Burgoyne is now gone from Boston, but another parting shot was recently fired at his Blockade. The Blockheads, a merciless farce that celebrates the ignominious British evacuation of Boston, was published in pamphlet form last...