Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia fought gamely in the first half, but slick ball handling and superb field goal shooting kept the Crimson just out of reach. Captain Gary Borchard consistently destroyed Columbia hopes for tying the score with unstoppable drives for lay-ins and alert defensive work...
...cars stream 9,500 night students, who head across the campus for courses that range from modern Armenian to thermal management of spacecraft. Along with the students come some 300,000 culture-minded visitors a year to such events as a film series on the supernatural, or a superb new production of Measure for Measure (TIME, Jan. 26). Thousands of extension students last week jammed registration offices to sign up for the spring semester...
Midsummer Night's Dream proved to be first-rate spectacle and only intermittently good dance. The sets, by Designer David Hays, were superb-particularly his stylized forest of plate-sized green leaves, spread in a gigantic canopy across the stage-and the costumes by Karinska were as opulent as any the City Ballet has ever displayed (the corps de ballet's wispy costumes cost $400 apiece; Oberon's gold lame tunic, $1,200). With a cast of nearly 100, most of the emphasis was inevitably on swirling group movements and splashy stage effects: clouds of smoke pouring...
...minimum just to submit themselves to the sterner discipline of the stage. Robert Ryan starred in the group's Sodom and Gomorrah, Nina Foch in U.S.A., Edie Adams and Eileen Heckart in Mother Courage. Last week Paula Prentiss and Dan O'Herlihy opened in Houseman's superb new production of Measure for Measure, and the group's next production will be the world premiere of a new play based on John Hersey's The Child Buyer...
...unfulfilled expectations. But in these, which probably relate more directly to her own life, Miss Olsen's unique style, so powerful elsewhere, seems contrived; Nonetheless, they are both moving and certainly well worth an hour of exam period procrastination. "Tell Me a Riddle" alone makes of Tillie Olsen a superb short story writer...