Word: classicize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chapman, associate professor of English, came to Harvard as an instructor in 1950 when he was putting the final touches on his dramatization (written in collaboration with Louis O. Coxe) of Melville's Billy Budd. A deeply moving allegory, the play has justly become something of an American classic already. In 1951, it was nosed out by Darkness at Noon by only two votes for the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as the finest play of the season. In 1953, the old Harvard Theatre Group chose for its farewell production the premiere of Chapman's much weaker play...
...Lowell House Drama for its second year, dusted off fine classic, Ghosts, Joseph W. '60 supervised the fairly good production and elicited a rather remarkable Mrs. Alving from so young a girl Anne S. Miner '62. The Group down badly in the spring with an virtually unrehearsed version of the mediaeval morality play...
...Praise Famous Men, by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Since it was written in 1936, this prose account of sharecroppers' lives, set down with the dark rage of a poet, has become a classic...
...Comparative Literature. Among his many books and anthologies, The Playwright as Thinker (1946) and In Search of a Theater (1947), are the most well known. He has attracted a wide audience of grateful readers with his series of anthologies, From the Modern Repertoire, The Modern Theater, and The Classic Theater. Bentley as an anthologizer tends to be unique in that he does not simply "collect" plays that are sure to find readers, but seeks to "present" plays which will indicate the development of the theater. The Modern Theater, for example, can be considered as an examination of varying forms...
Senator Styles Bridges finds himself challenged by the chairman of the Dartmouth History Department, Herbert W. Hill. Although Hill is running as a liberal and his chances of election are nil, even Loeb's Manchester Union admits that he is a good campaigner. Bridges' wife provided a classic issue of example of innuendo when she told a women's group that "Kennedy is not a communist--at least I don't think he's a communist--but his record is soft." Hill called the statement "the most treasonable utterance of the campaign" and he Senator found it wise to give...