Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meet this problem, it was learned last night from Richard A. Sullivan, assistant to the president of the MTA, that the University has hired engineering and architectural firms to find a solution. Sullivan confirmed that a "very practical solution" under consideration would move the tracks beneath the ground and build above them. It is believed that this idea--of building over the subway--has been favorably received by the University...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald ; Madam Butterfly, with Kirsten and Del Monaco...
...Sullivan faced a problem in planning last week's show, but he made a decision worthy of Solomon. The problem: Trendex was to take its monthly rating, and that called for an appearance by TV's tested rating tonic, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley. Yet Presley's pelvis-wagging in his last appearance on the Sullivan Show had raised a howl from many viewers. The solution: Sullivan cut Elvis in half; i.e., his cameras televised Presley exclusively above the belt, so that only the shrill of studio fans signaled the action below. Sullivan won a Trendex rating...
...critics then had their say. Mary X. Sullivan (Advertiser) stated, "Well, all I can say is that I got a terrible stomach ache from seeing the show." Eliot Norton (Record) commented, "I am struck by the portrayal of two lonely men clinging to one another in their loneliness. There is a wonderful quality of friendship between these two men. . . . And on a second hearing I had a feeling of unity I had missed before...
Norman Holland (M.I.T.) stated, "My reaction is not so visceral as Miss Sullivan's. Being a professor, my reaction is more cerebral. Aristotle defined drama as 'the imitation of an action,' but this play seems to be the imitation of inaction." (He was challenged, partially on the grounds that much of the action is mental and not physical.) "It is clearly a religious play, a deeply Christian play--full of symbolism; and whenever I see a symbol I flip. . . .I also feel a playwright should not spoon-feed his audience; he has every right to demand that the audience meet...