Word: establishment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anchor Prince. Baylor's furious fountainhead of theater is burningly scornful of academic mediocrity, preaches that "great teaching lies just short of prophecy." His own contribution to anticipating the future has been to establish at the Baptist school in Waco, Texas one of the most fertile experimental theaters in the U.S. In 1953 he startled Shakespeareans with an Othello that split the Moor into three abstractly made-up characters who represented separate aspects of the tormented hero's character. Three years later he persuaded Actor Burgess Meredith to quit his role as Sakini in Teahouse of the August...
...Monday workout Coach Harvey Love pushed the crews through a grueling three and a half mile row at racing beat, which should have served to develop this power further. The rest of the week has been devoted to smoothing out bladework and boat balance, in order to establish a firm technical foundation upon which to apply the hoped-for power...
...study ancient weapons he decided to become an archaeologist, steadily enlarged his collection with money from his wealthy banker-father. By 1924 he had enough to establish his own museum in Trieste, wangled a small subsidy from the Italian government. In 1937 he bought a strategically located house in Trieste where he could photograph any future bombardment. It came when the Allies attacked the German garrison of the city in the closing months of World War II. "I had to wait seven years," he gloats, "but it was worth...
...nest of Merrill's Marauders cut them down like wheat; one of the Marauders was later rumored to have slit the throat of the helpless Japanese officer. But, says Author Ogburn, 48, who was there as a second lieutenant, "no one had the stomach to try to establish the facts." From the pockets of one of the slain Japanese spilled two objects common to men at war: a cheap gilt Buddha and a contraceptive device. "It is hard to say which is the more unnerving." reflects Ogburn on seeing these evidences of sacred and profane love, "the thought...
Founded as a non-profit organization by Aaron, Dean Gitter '56, and John G. Eyre '58, the group sought to re-establish repertory theater in the United States. It used only actors from a permanent company and was to alternate five plays over a season extending from March through June...