Word: symposium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of last Friday's symposium, which ran till well after 1 a.m., has led Mr. Myerberg to schedule another one, open to the public without charge, beginning at 11:15 p.m. after tomorrow's performance. No-one who is interested in the theatre or in the meaning of life can well afford to remain unacquainted with this superlative production of a work that I feel confident future historians will rank very high in the canon of the world's plays...
...engendered violent controversy, which has followed it all over Europe and to the United States. The heart of the controversy lay (and still lies) in the allegedly enigmatic meaning of the play. Consequently, producer Michael Myerberg, in conjunction with his production last spring in New York, staged a weekly symposium at which those interested could discuss the play among themselves and with the people involved in the production...
Controversy again arose last week when Myerberg opened a brand new production of the show in Boston. After Friday's performance he staged a free symposium, which he later said was more successful than any of the New York ones. On the stage were assembled most of the Boston newspaper critics and several local college professors, plus the director, Herbert Berghof, and the members of the cast; and nearly 1500 people filled the house seats...
Another economist taking part in the symposium, Nathaniel Goldfinger of the AFL-CIO, sharply attacked the president's economic policy for its "dogmatic insistence on reducing governmental economic and social activities...
...Washington. British Atomic Chief Sir Edwin Plowden told a World Bank symposium that when the world's first civilian power plant starts operating at Calder Hall this month "the total cost of power . . . should be approximately the same as that from coal-or oil-fired stations in the United Kingdom." Plowden also sketched a timetable for commercial nuclear power in other parts of the world, foresaw its arrival in France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and South Australia in the early 1960s. Scandinavian countries in the 1970s. Russia and the U.S., added Plowden. "will have a number of 'power...