Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservative. Catholic-dominated People's Party-the favorite of the Western occupiers in Austria-was trying to play house with the Communists. Chancellor Raab, who has been able to make some political capital out of Russia's recent small concessions to the Austrians, has reportedly planned a trip to Moscow in hopes of "buying" a removal of Soviet occupation forces from the country. According to British Socialist M.P. Richard Grossman, reporting last week from Vienna to London's left-wing New Statesman and Nation, Raab recently sounded out Russia via New Delhi, to inquire whether the Russians...
Winners today will meet tomorrow afternoon for the Yard championship, but a victory today will probably ensure a trip to Yale...
...that the home side was filled from end zone to end zone, while across the field spectators sat only between the 30 yard lines. Hence with the former system, very few good seats were available to Yale alumni, and most of the old grads refused to make the long trip to New Haven to sit in bad ones...
...Trip is an honestly meant play by a competent playwright. But it puts Playwright Foote in much the same plight as his old Mrs. Watts. In a sense, he is running away from his material-and to as ghostly a destination. What begins as sharp domestic drama drifts into the sort of mild fantasy that seems, at its worst, mere filler. Once his old lady runs away, Playwright Foote can do nothing more than improvise, temporize, insert those small episodes in bus stations and buses that pay off as scenes but bankrupt the play as a whole. The play, furthermore...
While seeming to throttle stage & screen with one hand, television is generously offering help with the other. On Broadway last week, theatergoers and critics gave a modest approval to a TV import: Horton Foote's new play, The Trip to Bountiful, starring Lillian Gish (see THEATER). Last March millions of televiewers saw an hour-long version of the same play, with all but two of the same cast, on the Goodyear-Philco TV Playhouse. Robert Howard Lindsay's The Chess Game, seen in February on the Kraft TV Theater, is scheduled for a Broadway opening later this season...