Word: classicism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein II, co-author with the late Jerome Kern of Ol' Man River, was less enthusiastic about the liberties Robeson was taking with his classic. "I have no intention of changing [the lyrics] or permitting anyone else to change them," he said. "I further suggest that Paul write his own songs and leave mine alone...
...this time neither personal enemies nor the private power interests have been able to discredit him or his work. Two years ago, in the noisy struggle over his appointment as AEC chairman, his intellectual values were challenged by Senator McKellar and his fellows--and Lilienthal's reply was a classic statement of democratic faith...
...Wizard of Oz. A happily inspired reissue of the ten-year-old classic, with Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr (TIME...
Most of Manhattan's critics wrote sentimentally affectionate reviews. One dissent came from New York Times Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, who found the new four-a-day show a pale shadow of the classic two-a-day that died at the Palace in 1932. It was true that to get a new start, the proud old Palace had humbled itself with low-budget acts and no headliners. In a famed Variety phrase, the new show's hoofers, illusionists and comics were "good for the smalltime." But Variety itself, pointing to the Palace's low admission scale...
...onetime war-plant welder), visitors could turn to such literary hardware as Mitzi Solomon's aluminum Family of Man Totem. Among the best of the relatively representational items were Alfeo Faggi's leggy, high-breasted Eva, Koren Der Harootian's Slave, Burr Miller's classic marble nude La Victoire, and William Steig's tiny, self-effacing Elderly...