Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your story on Rockefeller read like the officially approved biographies of Henry Ford and Mary Baker Eddy. TIME used to be an organ of sharp, witty criticism rather than a cliche-ridden apologist for a spiked version of the American Dream...
...Yeat's version of the Greek tragedy offers its difficulties--the longer speeches include a number of passages obviously difficult to enunciate clearly--but it is still admirably suited for a modern audience because it stresses the excitement which the play contains. The director, D.J. Sullivan, understands this fact and has recreated Oedipus as a truly gripping piece of theater. Furthermore he and Harold Scott, who portrays the King, also understand the subtle rhythms of the tragedy, for in their hands the play rises through a beautifully timed series of climaxes to the point where Oedipus' anguished scream announces that...
...Stop. Don Murray ropes, brands and corrals expert Comedienne Marilyn Monroe in a rowdy version of William Inge's Broadway hit (TIME, Sept...
...King and I. The lavish musical version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit, with Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...
...fictional people from experience. But when Perkins read the manuscript of No More Rivers, he too was outraged to find himself and his Scribner associates pilloried in Wolfe's savage prose. And Wolfe's own turn had come when Aline Bernstein, in Three Bine Suits, gave her version of their love affair. Sounding exactly like one of his own victims, Tom wrote her a note complaining that the book would "get pawed over and whispered about by wretched, verminous little people who want to poke around, pick out identities and gloat over . . . scandalous morsels...