Word: vermonter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the sturdy Vermont farmhouse which gave it its title, The Southwest Corner has many more strengths than weaknesses. John Cecil Holm has created a thoughtful framework out of light material. His rather effective come tragedy is due almost entirely to sharply chiseled characterizations. For dramatically, the playwright's adaptation of Milder Walker's novel is somewhat shaky. His arrangement of ideas and characters is less clear-cut than her original fashioning of them. But masterful acting by a woman, not the heroine, buttresses this one weak timber, and makes The Southwest Corner a skillfully executed play...
...issue of the play is a timeless one: country virtue vs. city materialism. A dignified but homespun Vermont woman suddenly gains as a living companion on her farm a plump, middle aged woman from Dedbam, Mass., who speaks through her nose and adores TV. The latter can hardly appreciate an old woman who reminisces about the boarded-up southwest corner of her house, just because it was once the parlor of her family. A conflict of values is inevitable...
...rare for two or three student groups to converge on New Delhi at once. To bring together organizations with student activities in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, the Ford Foundation and other groups recently called a conference at the Experiment in International Living, at Putney, Vermont...
Robert H. Morrison '56, son of Theodore H. Morrison '23, lecturer in English, was fatally injured in an automobile accident at Stowe, Vermont last Thursday. He was on his honeymoon with his bride of two days, the former Barbara Ann Edson of Westhaven, Connecticut, when the accident occurred...
Morrison was removing his tire chains by the side of Route 110 when a car driven by Richard Deignault of Burlington, Vermont skidded on the slippery road behind him and threw him 100 feet. Neither Deignault nor Mrs. Morrison, who was sitting in the parked car, were injured...