Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some well-rehearsed heckling. Soviet Cultural Exchange Boss Georgy A. Zhukov all but admitted that the hecklers were government plants-a form of revenge for some of the rebuffs handed to Mikoyan and Kozlov during their U.S. visits. "Your workers," Zhukov blandly told Nixon, "expressed their point of view by throwing rotten eggs, but our workers express their opinion by asking questions. That...
...your letter the unfortunate implication that only a group that makes lots of money is to be considered a success. Having said that the C.D.F. "laid a considerable financial egg," you go on to deduce that it has "the least successful record of all." This is a crassly materialistic view. The C.D.F., in the stature of its offerings, has been a pronounced success. And in giving Shaw's Saint Joan with Siobhan McKenna it provided local theatregoers with as great a performance as the Boston area has ever witnessed...
...lies the chief weakness of this production. Now Robards is one of our most richly endowed native actors, and his performances in 20th-century American works have been unbeatable. But he is as yet vocally unequipped to cope with the demands of Shakespearean language. This is not surprising in view of the fact that his only previous experience with the Bard was a brief go at Hotspur last summer in Canada. Good classical diction is not achieved overnight, and some never master it after a lifetime...
With Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, the Boston Summer Playhouse brings us their finest production to date. Originally presented on Broadway in 1955 as the major part of a double bill, this powerful story about the complex intrafamilial relationships in a Brooklyn waterfront household provides a jolting theatrical experience...
...household appliances and new cars, undertake large home improvements. The survey pointed out that some part of the public must be getting used to prices once considered "too high," but it warned businessmen that the economy still lacks-and could use-the positive stimulus of prices that most people view as "reasonable...