Word: vistaed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work more closely with the community. He will be free to do his own research and "some polemic writing," notably on the need to show U.S. art abroad. He will also have three months a year for vacation or travel. Says he contentedly, "it looks like a very attractive vista...
Stage Struck (RKO Radio; Buena Vista) is a vigorous second blossoming, this time in hothouse Technicolors, of Morning Glory, the sentimental success of 1933. First time out, the blooming little idiot of the title role was portrayed by a young comer named Katharine Hepburn, and the performance won her an Oscar and made her a star. This time around, the stage-struck heroine is played by a young (19) comer named Susan Strasberg-well known on Broadway for her work in The Diary of Anne Frank-and the performance seems sure to win her Hollywood stardom...
...bomblet, packing the wallop of 1,700 tons of TNT, exploded 800 ft. underground on the AEC's Nevada proving grounds, opened up a new vista for the peaceful uses of atomic explosives (see SCIENCE). But the prospect of the bright atomic future stirred up less interest in Washington than a dispute over how far away an underground A-bomblet's shock wave can be detected. Reason: the ability to detect or conceal a test explosion has a vital bearing on the growing debate over whether the U.S. should accept Russia's proposal for a suspension...
...primarily to important P. & G. people, resolved never, never to go into debt-in fact refused to buy a house until they could do it without a mortgage. In due time he bought his present grey-green stucco house (known to visiting relatives as Grand Central Station) at 3478 Vista Terrace in the Hyde Park section of Cincinnati...
...misused and exaggerated Brecht's refreshing approach to stagecraft to such an extent that it seriously detracts from the play. Indeed, Brecht's ideas about "antitheatricality" must be used dramatically, not as an excuse not to sweep the stage. The creamy decor of the bare Agassiz stage with a vista to the light board tends to distract the eye and the attention, rather than to accent the action. The idea of using masque-like make-up is bright and fresh, but the make-up should be carefully and artfully applied to all the characters. The costumes are merely sloppy: blue...