Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great word war over "Who's a warmonger?" ended this week at Lake Success. The month's debate was a sea of platitude lashed by the winds of bombast and invective. It resulted in a resolution condemning talk that might disrupt the peace. Everybody could agree to that. In fact, everybody did; the vote...
...Russians have had more success in introducing Soviet living standards. Said a Meissen baker bitterly when asked what he thought of Germany's future: "They are lowering us to the Russian level. They want workers here to have 150 marks a month and one suit of clothes, as in Russia. Germans are used to better than that." A Meissen housewife, asked about her city's famed china, put it still more succinctly...
...freer as it went," of Euripides' drama about five years ago at the urging of Actress Anderson and especially for her. He dedicated his work to her, though he had seen her act only once-in a California presentation of his Greekish Tower Beyond Tragedy. The whacking Broadway success of Medea has made up to Jeffers the recent Broadway failure of a dramatization of his poem, Dear Judas (TIME, Oct. 20). The 60-year-old poet thinks now that he might even try writing an original play "if I knew what to write about...
...Druid Circle is an understanding and very often interesting play, but not quite a success. It is too full of clashing moods and shifting pressures. Between the university and the professor is more difference than at first appears-all the difference between the stuff of satire and the stuff of drama. With fluttering spinsters and tea-table gossip constantly cutting in on the professor's story, The Druid Circle seems too intense at moments, yet not intense enough as a whole. Playwright van Druten, who as a young man taught for a time at the sort of college...
Pictured above is the high-water mark of last year's Crimson gridiron success. The date is November 2, the place, the Stadium. Undefeated in five starts and rated twentieth nationally, the Varsity is on the move again, this time against Rutgers...