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...McClelland is digging up new type-faces so that the 'Poon can send the stupifying Bodoni back to the Congressional Record. The new look includes photographs, and the full-page ones in this issue are of Harvard's beautiful people." They must have been taken either by W. Laney Thornton, the sole member of the Photographic Board, or by a Leica with a very dry sense of humor...
...always wishes that Thornton Wilder were as intelligent as he is theatrically gifted. After his stagecraft enchants and grips you, you're left with the truisms and slightly awry profundity of his philosophy. He converts the theatre into a sympathetic, subtle medium and then ignores its potential to sermonize. But his humor is so warm, and his juggling of conventions so hypnotic, that you're a hundred steps out of the theatre before you realize you've been hoodwinked into sentimentality...
...sweep and elegance of residential show places are breathtaking-and so are the prices. In Bel Air and Holmby Hills, homes worth upwards of half a million dollars are commonplace, and so are residents of the likes of Walt Disney, Red Skelton, Burt Lancaster, Industrialist Tex Thornton and Department Store Magnate Edward Carter. Other enclaves of the very rich are Beverly Hills' Trousdale Estates, where homes cost from $100,000 to $300,000, and Hancock Park, an old area of the central city that has been restored to extraordinary elegance. In Hancock Park, in stately mansions set on handsomely...
MINNEAPOLIS. Minnesota Theater Company. At the Tyrone Guthrie Theater: August Strindberg's The Dance of Death; Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth; William Shakespeare's As You Like It; alternating through Sept...
...everyone in sight. Ranging around the tower's walk at will, he sent his bullets burning and rasping through the flesh and bone of those on the campus below, then of those who walked or stood or rode as far as three blocks away. Somewhat like the travelers in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, who were drawn by an inexorable fate to their crucial place in time and space, his victims fell as they went about their various tasks and pleasures. By lingering perhaps a moment too long in a classroom or leaving a moment...