Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richards makes this sketch, Bontche Schweig, and the first one, The Tale of Chelm, worthwhile. In making Bontche's request, his one line in the play, he must walk the tightrope between melodrama and pathetic humor, and he does it in perfect balance. The other actors, however, seem too rigid in their parts, as if they were not really communicating with each other; and the directing seems too light, as if it were not forcing the actors to work together. The music of Hovey and de Cornier, and a narrator, help to integrate these two sketches, but the result...
...regrets are quashed by Sholom Aleichem's story The High School. This last sketch brings together brilliance of acting, direction, and story. Perl, in adopting a technique of surface discontinuity of story, actually heightens the underlying continuity of emotion. Morris Carnovsky plays to perfection the role of a father who can't see why his son should want to go to a gentile school instead of following his tracks into the business. But his wife is determined, and Carnovsky's only strength seems to be his wit; this is sad since his wit is less honed than that...
...Cold War battle to head off the kind of world the Communists want, the U.S. has never been too specific about the kind of world the U.S. wants. Last week, speaking in his old home town of Abilene, Kans. (see below), President Eisenhower sought to sketch in bold lines the free world's hopes for the future: a sound "world economy" binding together a "world community of free nations, characterized by peace and by justice." Within mankind's reach, said he, is "a free, rich, peaceful future, in which all peoples' can achieve ever-rising levels...
Regarding the cover of Khrushchev and Americana, it was a pleasant surprise to see the John Carter Brown gate of Brown University. However, your background sketch on Artist Safran failed to mention any reason why he chose to paint the gate and Sayles Hall in the background. Did he have any reason...
After I concluded my study of Dewey's autobiographical sketch, I found out by fortunate coincidence that he was at the time visiting professor at Harvard. So early that afternoon I went to Lowell House and knocked on the door of his room. Happily, he was in. I asked John Dewey whether he would have half an hour for an interview any time in the next few days. He very generously answered, "now." So I put to him the following questions...