Word: texts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...credit to the New York Times as the only newspaper that printed my letter in full. You can find almost anything in the New York Times if you look between pages ten and 17.' " Added the Times: the story "started, on Page i and was continued, with the text of the letter, on Page...
Books will either be sent to Europe or added to PBH's text loan library, which enables needy students to borrow them at low rates. Clothing, too, will be delivered abroad...
There was also high praise for 19-year-old Jean Simmons' Ophelia. Wrote the New Statesman's thoughtful William Whitebait: "Ophelia comes out with a clarity I have never before known on the stage or, for that matter, the text . . . Miss Simmons' mad scenes (she acts them very simply; her beauty does the rest) are the most affecting I have known; in fact, this is the first time, in my experience, that the shock of Ophelia gone mad has moved and not embarrassed...
Some of the critics objected that Olivier had been too cavalier with the text. He had cut the 4½-hour play to 2½ hours, eliminated such roles as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, transposed speeches or even whole scenes as he found necessary. He called the result an "essay on Hamlet" The Manchester Guardian called it "a film which is much more closely knit and, indeed, much more dramatic than any stage Hamlet...
...Hammocks. Like the accompanying text, the 501 photographs in this book embrace everything under the sun-including whole centuries of kitchen sinks. Looking at one another with some surprise are McCormick harvesters, Roman baths, barber chairs, egg beaters and tricycles. Victorian maidens swing gently in new-fangled hammocks-oblivious of a conveyor-beltful of hogs swinging equally gently toward Swift's and Armour's hams...