Word: trojan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of Harvey's new acquaintances were quite unfriendly. The Communist press hinted darkly that he was actually a capitalist Trojan horse which would lull Austrians into forgetting life's serious problems. The Red Army's local paper warned its readers that "Harvey is not really a harmless bit of fluff . . . The great mission of this rabbit," it wrote, "is to overcome reality-the bad truth one always wants to put away...
Despite the reputation the play holds in academic circles, it has never seen a professional performance on Broadway. The only New York appearance of "Troilus and Cressida" occurred 20 years ago, when Monty Wooley directed a group of Yale undergraduates in the drama of the Trojan...
Miss Laughton's marriage last Saturday tosses the role of the woman who caused the Trojan war to Gloria Scott Backe of Emerson College...
Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida" will be the first college production to appear in the refurbished Brattle Theater. The Harvard Theater Workshop, ten of whose members jointly own the Brattle st. structure, has chosen this epic of the Trojan war for their initial play...
...except perhaps Joseph Stalin") knew whether war was near. Wars had been touched off by pretty eyes (1200 B.C.), by a garbled telegram (1870), and even by Jenkins' ear (1739). But most wars, including the Trojan, the Franco-Prussian, and that of Jenkins' ear, are caused not by incidents but by somebody's belief that he can get something by war that he cannot get any other...