Word: types
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas Hill took the title role of Willy Loman. This type of part is exactly his dish of tea; he was utterly convincing at every moment, and compared favorably with his local predecessors in the role--Lee J. Cobb, Thomas Mitchell, and Dean Gitter...
Separate Tables is actually a brace of plays with the same locale--Table by the Window and Table Number Seven--each dealing with a different type of loneliness, and each, aside from the two leads, employing the same set of characters. There is plenty of humor, but the themes are basically serious...
...Dulcy was Dody Goodman, a refugee from the Jack Paar TV show. She has one of the most unpleasant and whiny voices I've ever heard on the stage; but that is probably an advantage for this role. Heaven help her if she ever tries to play another type of woman, though...
...various Departments and Houses co-operate in offering voluntary sessions which would would make non-Honors juniors "interested in the aspects of their field of concentration which touch them as men and as members of a community." This suggestion, which to many appeared to be a plea for some type of sugar-coated vocational training, at least had the merit of supporting the abolition of compulsory non-Honors junior tutorial...
...week at the Times office, drives his editorial staff (four Britons, six Foley-trained Cypriots) with querulous sarcasm. ("How many Cypriots," he is likely to cry, "care enough about the British cricket test matches to want to be told they've been rained off in one-inch type?") Foley will order replates by phone from his bed to keep up with the island's latest explosion, blithely ignoring groans from his Greek printing staff...