Word: wildernesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice would have been Cronin's. But Ted Morris, who directed the play (the program notes modestly proclaim, "The unnatural stiffness of the occasion is Ted Morris's fault"), Yoshi Shimizu, who made "all the sights for sure eyes" (i.e. the set, the costumes, and the props), and Bill Wilder, who composed "the heard melodies" transformed each of the obstacles which nature had put in their way into an advantage. The result was an effortless and delightful stylization...
...perfection. He kept the actors moving in a fluid and carefully planned ballet. Every time a step was taken, an arm raised, an eyebrow lifted, one caught a glimpse of the puppeteer behind the scenes. The balance between the medieval and the modern was made most strongly by Bill Wilder's ingenious score, which shifted gracefully from twelfth century ars antiqua to the twentieth century twelve tone scale. Shimizu's set was a black curtain whose space was miraculously filled with a few flowing white splotches; his props were colored cardboard; and even his costumes were abstractions of Medieval clothing...
...chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers Kennedy chose Liberal Walter Heller-but the new Treasury Secretary will be Republican Douglas Dillon, who last week warned Congressmen not to expect any revolutionary New Frontier economic policies (see BUSINESS). Indeed, in almost every area of Government, Kennedy has selected the wilder-eyed liberals to fill second ary posts-and placed them under the thumbs of able moderates...
...curtain has just fallen on William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (Royal Court). Let us now imagine that there steps from the wings the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Pulling on a corncob pipe, he speaks...
...Thornton Wilder (parodied by Kenneth Tynan...