Word: comment
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...would like to comment briefly on the review of my book, The Future of Public Education [Feb. 1]. The book specifically states (contrary to the interpretation in the review) that it has been unwise to lump all teachers together, regardless of grade level or subject taught, into one vast organization...
...kind of tribute from one who greatly admired Poet Millay's work without knowing the author, A Lovely Light, helpfully directed by Actress Stickney's playwright husband Howard Lindsay, is also a pleasant theater piece. Mingling pert comment and factual color from the letters with the lyrical stresses, responses and longings of the poems, Actress Stickney nicely balances the mockingbird and the nightingale, the humorous down-to-earth snorts and the impassioned cries of a woman responding to nature, or in love, or not in love...
Both Kafka and Orwell might have created the author's weird wine cellar-Kafka so that the flyers might molder in the hallucinatory dark, Orwell in order that they might escape to comment ironically on the world's regress. But British Author Shaw, a stage and movie actor who wrote the book between engagements, describes his characters deftly in the manner of the standard psychological novel. Hans is a latent homosexual who tends his human house pets as a kind of offering to his Fuehrer and his dead, domineering mother. Wilson, the older of the two flyers...
...uses one of the theater's favorite recipes, the life story of a prostitute. In her older years she is Ruth Gordon (her first Broadway appearance since The Matchmaker); in her younger years she is Diane Cilento. Both are onstage much of the time, the old whore passing comment on the young. Among her lovers and clients: Sam Levene, Ernest Truex. The play was favorably received in Philadelphia by two out of four reviewers. The News, whose regular critic was barred from the theater by Producer David ("The Abominable Showman") Merrick for being five minutes late, called...
Rosemary (German). The true-life story of Rosie Nitribitt, a shabby little prostitute who eventually became one of the highest-priced women in West Germany. Bubbly champagne farce turns into solemn social comment...