Word: strains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock, wearing a wool suit, a bluish tweed overcoat and a beanie hat, Mrs. Rockefeller walked through a rear entrance into the courthouse with her sons Rodman, 29, and Steven, 25. Mrs. Rockefeller showed some strain as she walked past the popping flashbulbs. Her sons left her for an anteroom, and she walked into the courtroom. It is a large chamber with azure walls and gilded frieze. Except for Judge Bowen, the two lawyers, and three court attendants, she was alone...
...forced to teach just for the tests, a committee of top school administrators last month called for a nationwide revolt: "Local school systems should refuse to participate in nationally sponsored tests unless those tests can be demon strated to have value commensurate with the effort, money, time and emotional strain involved." The controversy illustrates...
Lover Come Back. Gagman Stanley Shapiro has written a situation comedy as smooth as baby food, and Director Delbert Mann manages to strain some humor out of Rock Hudson and Doris...
Williams retains tension the way some people retain fluids. To ease the strain of meeting people and facing the world, he relies partly on cigarettes (two packs a day), but mostly on drink and pills. A trifle defensively, Williams puts his intake of liquor at half of a fifth a day. "It's more like half a fifth of bourbon and half a fifth of vodka," says a friend. Williams at times takes half a Dexamyl to "pep up," 1½ Seconals a day "to smooth things over," and two Miltowns with Scotch to go to sleep...
When Iguana opened in late December 1961, Williams proved to be in his best dramatic form since Streetcar, with the debatable exception of Cat. By echoing a strain of gentleness unheard since Menagerie, Iguana served to bracket the whole range of Williams' achievement, a body of work so substantial that it now casts a larger shadow than the man who made it. In that shadow lies a form of theater as well as a series of plays, the theater of Chekhovian sensibility mated with the Freudian irrational unconscious. The champion of the rival Ibsenite theater of social