Word: aronson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come--on the stage of the ANTA Theatre, at the corner of 52nd Street and Broadway, Archibald MacLeish's "play in verse" received its New York City premiere. The production had enlisted a somewhat disparate but unquestionably distinguished group of the biggest talents in the business: Elia Kazan, Boris Aronson, Raymond Massey, Christopher Plummer, Pat Hingle. Everyone involved, in Newsweek's candid prose, was taking "a calculated risk; the drama had arrived via the egghead circuit." But virtue was rewarded, for J.B. proved to be "a sort of theatrical thunderbolt that strikes about once in a decade," according to Newsweek...
Dean McGeorge Bundy announced the appointment of three social psychologists to the Harvard faculty, last Friday. Elliot Aronson, who received his Ph.D. from Stanford this spring, will be a Lecturer of Social Psychology, Richard D. Mann, Jr., an instructor at University of Michigan, will be Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, and John Trevor Pierce, now an instructor at Harvard, becomes a Lecturer on Social Psychology...
Powell was released unharmed about two hours later, apparently as the result of an ultimatium by Gov. J. Hugo Aronson. The 18 others, all guards and prison employes, remained prisoners of the shouting inmates...
MacLeish set his play in "a traveling circus which has been on the roads of the world for a long time." Boris Aronson has complied by designing a circus maximus that is the finest set of the season. Doing away completely with a proscenium curtain, the set bulges out into the audience. A raked stage boasts a marvelously rhythmic series of ramps and stairs, culminating in a funambulist's platform that doubles as a modern counterpart of the old Greek drama's theologeion. There are ropes and pulleys, and part of the canvas tent...
...Aronson has added to the play's cosmic atmosphere by suspending in the air a sort of armillary sphere fitted with small spotlights, which Tharon Musser has exploited ingeniously in her extraordinary lighting. The set, furthermore, has to be able to undergo drastic physical upheaval in mid-scene, in the tradition of Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth...