Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Music 2, which is now being proposed to the Committee on Educational Policy for its approval, will be a full-year, simplified version of Music 51, according to Ward. The course will not be open to concentrators, and students with no previous musical education will be eligible to take...
...Infernal Machine (adapted by Albert Bermel from the French of Jean Cocteau) is Oedipus Rex revised and enlarged. The Cocteau version, which is 24 years old, does some clever satiric tale twisting, makes the story turn a psychological handspring or two, tosses in talk of music and dancing, and includes scene after scene that Sophocles did without. It uses a legitimate method of getting out of a classical rut and taking a fresh modern slant. The result is interesting without being successful...
...sprawling ugliness of a three-story Willard Hotel that seems to imprison the audience as well as the players, this pallid version of Broadway's Look Homeward, Angel has just enough story line for a wistful, low-key one-act play. The line goes hopelessly slack in the second and third acts when Playwright Sergel keeps falling back on his first. Even the major Anderson characters seem thin, and for a good reason. Anderson merely sketched them with evocative daubs; his adapter failed to fill them out with the detail demanded by the theater. Out of misapplied reverence...
...took over when her husband died in 1950, and Vice President Jack Gaty, who runs the operating end, Beech's line starts with its famed single-engined Bonanza ($25,000), goes up to a far fancier Twin-Bonanza at $88,000, and ends with an eight-passenger peacetime version of its wartime D18, which costs $125,000. This year, like its competitors, Beech will try to fill in the chinks...
Aero Alti-Cruiser, a pressurized, souped-up version of the Aero Commander. Cruising speed: 230 m.p.h. Price...