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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...procreative power" as represented by Stanley Kowalski rather than Blanche DuBois' "vulnerability." Unfortunately, this thesis does not play successfully throughout, and the result is an energetic but uneven production. "The total horror of Blanche's affliction" may be, as Mr. Rabb claims, "her incapability of surviving," but perhaps this statement explains why his production never bores but seldom moves one. The fall of Blanche DuBois should certainly evoke a greater reaction than horror. Otherwise she becomes grotesque, and her viewers cannot take her seriously. This was definitely the case Tuesday evening; and, as a result, some of Blanche's most...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: A Streetcar Named Desire | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...program note, The Great Big Doorstep, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, is referred to as "a wholesome antidote to the heavy exposure of Deep South Depravity to which readers and playgoers were already being subjected." The fallacy in this statement is that, while depravity can at least cause a warm tingling sensation up and down your groin, the only emotion induced by prolonged exposure to innocuousness is sheer boredom...

Author: By John Kasdan, | Title: Tufts Theatre Opens | 7/9/1959 | See Source »

...Trujillo's Cuba-based opponents in May, the C46 load of rebels fanned out into the hills to begin a hot running fight. Five days later, Ventura Simó, freshly decorated and newly promoted to colonel, sat down in Ciudad Trujillo at a government microphone to read a statement that he had been a spy all along, had delivered the rebels into a trap. After the broadcast he appeared at a Foreign Ministry reception to be photographed shaking hands with a dozen hastily invited ambassadors-including the U.S.'s Joseph F. Farland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Blood on the Beach | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...convention backed Dr. Behnken in voting to make a 1932 statement of the Missouri Synod's doctrinal position binding on all pastors and teachers with the force of the Bible and the confessions themselves. Known as the "Brief Statement,'' it is an 8,000-word document that holds, among other things, that the Bible contains "no errors or contradictions," historical, scientific or otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conservative Missouri | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...synod also adopted a new statement of principle on racial prejudice: "It is a violation of God's will for any man to treat his fellow man with contempt or to despise any particular race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conservative Missouri | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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