Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times of crisis, such as that created by the unfortunate events near Nassau Street Thursday night, that the true mettle of a community is tested. So far officials of both the town police and the University administration have acted with moderation; we trust that they will continue...
Princeton officials seemed reluctant this morning to recommend immediate action against the three Tiger football players accused of assaulting town youth Larry Shelvey on Thursday night...
...story is about a small town Oklahoma family of the 1920's. Rubin Flood is losing his job and getting to feel left behind by the world. His wife, Cora, argues with him about all the traditional things; their first act fight and third act reconciliation frame the play. They have an engaging son, Sonny, who hates people and collects pictures of movie stars, and a teen-age daughter, Reenie, who is afraid to be social. Cora's sister, Lottie, and Lottie's husband turn out to be rather joyless, too, under her veneer of exhilaration and his of complacency...
...fours to examine her piano for the mechanical contraption that might explain the miracle. In Copenhagen the Danish press had her examined by a doctor to certify that she was really a child and not a midget; but New York critics wildly reached for their superlatives after her Town Hall debut at eight...
...play Beethoven because it brings in the dollars." She was old enough to know that he was not the musician he claimed to be. When her father took over her training completely, she started to play music she did not understand with false phrasing, exaggerated rhythms, distorted emotions. A Town Hall concert climaxed the tension between father and daughter. The critics called her "a burned-out candle...