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Word: withe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Yale production created a stir in drama circles up and down the Ivy League, drew in droves of New Haven academics and New York critics, and was shipped off to Brussels by the State Department to represent the American theatre at the World's Fair. Charles A. Fenton, Assistant...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

"The best play of this or many seasons ... reaches heights of poetry and performance seldom attempted in the recent history of the American stage," cried John MacLain in the Journal American. Hobe Morrison in Variety spoke of "this exalted drama," John Chapman of the Daily News thought it "a magnificent...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

The magazine critics had time for second thoughts but most of them joined in with the newspaper hymnsinging. Marya Mannes of the Reporter complained about Hingle's naturalistic acting in the title role--"This is a classic role that demands a classic actor with the kind of diction only the...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

The CRIMSON, which has somehow acquired a reputation for excessive rigor among its readers, had the same editor on hand for opening night as had previously reviewed the text of the play with deep qualms about the verse. He underwent a positively Pauline conversion. "A great play given a great...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

Governor Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey visited Cambridge yesterday with his pretty wife and a prepared speech. Addressing the Harvard Democratic Leadership Forum, he struck at the large measure of abdication of regulatory authority by the so-called big six Federal commissions--FTC, FCC, FPC, FAA, SEC, and ICC...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: N.J. Governor Meyner Addresses Student Democrats | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

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