Word: atkinson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philip J. Atkinson's legendary deed...
Next came Vassar and the recognition that this wholesome young woman possessed an eerie gift. Clinton Atkinson, a director on the college staff, found her acting "hair raising, absolutely mind boggling. I don't think anyone ever taught Meryl acting; she really taught herself." After graduating with a major in drama, she joined a small repertory company in Vermont and then won a three-year scholarship to the Yale School of Drama. Her classwork won ever higher praise. "Whenever she did a scene," says Director Robert Lewis, who was a professor there at the time, "you wished that...
...latest successor to Brooks Atkinson, the Times'near legendary daily critic, Kerr hopes to provide readers with critiques they "can understand, enjoy-if possible-and agree with after they've seen the show." Whether that will fortify the paper's waning influence on the Great White Way remains uncertain. Eder, a former foreign correspondent, will be assigned elsewhere at the Times, having rejected an offer from Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal to play a supporting role to Kerr's lead in the theater section. Said Eder of his unexpectedly brief engagement: "I think my work is valuable...
There were the actors, the lighting technicians and the stagehands, but who was that strange-looking man poking around backstage at the Brooks Atkinson Theater last week? Finally, one of the prop men had to know. "Look, who are you?" he asked. "You've been hanging around here for days." "I'm the author of the play," the man answered, "and I'm the director as well. You may not have noticed." "Well," retorted the prop man, "I can't say I did." It may not have happened that way, of course, but that...
...income from royalties off patents has to be used for science education and research," Atkinson said, adding "we can't just build a new swimming pool with...