Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this goes on in China. That fact doesn't seem very significant because Brecht seems to write with a dark Germanic humor and the English version which the Harvard Dramatic Club chose is by Eric Bentley, who never uses a foreign word when an American one will do. The colloquiality (?) of the piece is one of its charms...
...once said. Memphis railroaders were known to fight with strangers who sang the slanderous lines. For a while, the ballad was banned in Jackson, Tenn., where Janie Jones lived out the long, lean years. With the help of a ghost writer, she tried to clear herself in a new version of the song: "My Casey, Husband Casey, who meant the world...
...later agreed with the public that it was a "monotonous and cold'' work. Nevertheless, he returned to it after 25 years and extensively revised it. Not often performed, the revised Boccanegra is a fascinating melange of early Verdian flamboyance and late Verdian depth. In this LP version a superb cast kindles enough vocal splendors, especially in the ensemble passages, to suggest Boccanegra as a candidate for frequent restaging...
...above begs the question every review must answer: is the play worth seeing? The answer, upon reflection, is yes. With its several flaws, Hartman's Godot stands up well when compared to the excellent all-Negro version. Matisoff may be even better than his opposite number was; only Graham falls far short, which merely proves that there are too few Geoffrey Holders in the theatre. And, after all, everyone should see Waiting for Godot at least once...
...would deny that economic assistance relies on the "maintenance of a sound domestic economy," but in the interpretation of "sound" lies the difference between a successful program in Asia and Africa or another failure. The President's version of a sound economy precludes the proper scope in expenditures for technical assistance projects, "bankable" loans and loans whose eventual repayment is doubtful. Yet it is on these outlays, as well as in tariff reductions and private capital, that success in Asia and Africa depends...