Word: uses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tone and facial expressions to disguise the fact that the reporter is not a slimy busybody but a spiritual successor to Alison. Probably the best performance of the evening was given by Karen Johnson in the role of the wayward daughter. If Miss Johnson ever learns to use her face and voice as expressively as she can use her body, she will indeed be a great actress...
South Pacific (at the University Theatre). Despite the ill-advised intermittent use of color filters, there still remains the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein show, one of the glorious monuments of our cultural heritage. France Nuyen is a delight as the object of John Kerr's love...
...centuries Harvard has connoted truth, scholarship, and culture. I find the connotation valid. Evidence of the institution's discovery of truth, and achievement of scholarship is so manifest in the history of the world that words are inept. I prefer, therefore, to use the allotted space in recounting an incident in the area of that somewhat nebulous realm called the culture of Harvard...
Whatever one may think of this line of reasoning, it must be admitted that Berghof has succeeded in doing almost everything he set out to do. His production makes use of the fine two-story basic stage that Robert O'Hearn designed for the Cambridge Drama Festival's shows in Sanders Theatre. High up, Lester Polakov (whose costumes add much to the general lightness and brightness) has affixed a number of white, stylized orange-tree tops. And by having spikes driven into the poles, Berghof has enabled people to scamper up to a third level. In the garden scene where...
Ever since plans for the new compact cars got around Detroit, competitors of General Motors Corp. have been kicking at the rear engine G.M. will use in its Corvair. Chrysler Corp. President Lester Lum Colbert announced that Chrysler's small-car offering, the Valiant, would have its engine "up front, where it belongs." Ford Motor Co., whose small Falcon will also have a front engine, launched TV commercials demonstrating that an arrow weighted at the back end will fly erratically and miss the target, but that a "properly weighted" (i.e., heavy at the front) arrow will go straight...