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...Knights. Frederick ("Fritz") Loewe is Viennese, emotional, a flamboyant gambler who thinks the second biggest thrill on earth is to drop $30,000 in a single night at the casino tables, then tell about it for weeks. Alan Jay Lerner is cool, self-controlled and self-censored, a planner who will not even put money in his own shows because, as he firmly explains, "I don't bet." Loewe likes to recall that he "starved" for 20 years; Lerner has always been wealthy. Short, lean, with the sallow skin of the heart patient, Loewe is 59 and looks it; about...
With respect to the participation in the demonstrations, one could see that many students and others participated because of the emotional thrill they got out of it. But here also an additional factor cannot be made into the main factor without a distortion of the whole picture. Surprising for me and many others was the predominance of students in the demonstrations. We were told that the students consider themselves as the future leaders of the nation much more confidently than they do in America. They will become the "mandarins" in the social hierarchy and they are sure of it. This...
...Center is finished and has begun operating. Probably there never will be a definition of its place in Harvard drama, and this is perhaps a good thing. Questions such as the choice between "audience plays" or artistic plays, professionalism vs. amateurism, and whether the theatre ought to educate or thrill, have a way of remaining un-answered, and as long as these questions are hotly debated, no one need worry about the health of drama at Haarvard...
...preliminaries at Atlantic City, her Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams, was campaigning in New Jersey for Jack Kennedy. Although he missed her crowning, "Soapy" slipped into town in time for the subsequent Coronation Ball and a dance with his comely constituent, who magnanimously labeled it "my second biggest thrill of the night...
...Kazan has a mildewed and cloudy atmosphere that fits the surrealistic story. I read it several times with ever increasing enjoyment and admiration. In contrast with this is the effort necessary to force myself to wade a second time through the turgid prose of Mary Wild Tillich's The Thrill of a Lifetime. Mrs. Tillich's story is flat, dead, and full of inexact and unevocative words and phrases...