Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wagner is elected, his successor as Mayor would be Abe Stark, President of the City Council--a man more liked than respected. Although Stark is better known as a supporter of worthy causes than as an administrator, he is pledged to Wagner's policy and budget. The advisers, the City Council, and the City Administrator would be the same...
There is no reason to believe that Stark would do any harm to the city in his short stay, while Wagner would greatly aid the nation if he became a Senator from New York...
...stage design. Twenty minutes later, Director Kurt Herbert Adler had moved some furniture and props-Christoff likes to play in profile instead of facing the audience-and the rehearsal went on. The actual performance was given in a strange melange of heavy, traditional furniture and Kerz's stark, modern setting, framed in 14 big, black, red-tipped vertical daggers; neither set nor performance as a whole was very convincing...
Olive Dunbar as the wife, Thomas Hill and Anthony Vorno as the immigrant cousins, and Thomas Clancy as the lawyer-narrator are all excellent. Jill Kraft is more than adequate as the niece, though her vocal inflections do not always ring true. William Roberts' set is appositely stark and grim, with a suggestion here and there of classical Greek architecture (as in Boris Aronson's Broadway set). Tharon Musser's lighting is always helpful if straightforward...
...Sincere response to the will of God literally makes it impossible for us to be 'holier than thou' reformers when we look at the South," he told his congregation last February, "and at the same time overlook social irresponsibility and stark prejudice right under our very noses . . . What does your experience of God say? Shall we continue to segregate ourselves into white churches in Boston? If we do, can we still call ourselves Christians and followers of Jesus ?" Pastor Hale announced his intention to hire a Negro minister to replace the minister to students, who was leaving...