Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Manhattan-based committee will press at both political conventions for platform planks pledging repeal. Already on record favoring repeal of the Reservation are President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Herter, ex-President Truman, Adlai Stevenson, and all Democratic presidential candidates except Lyndon Johnson...
Along with a third of his estate, Kelly left his wife Margaret a wry admonition: "Give my son 'Kell' all my personal be longings . . . except the ties, shirts, sweaters and socks, as it seems unnecessary to give him something of which he has already taken possession." After other warnings against a family tendency to gamble and speculate in wildcat stocks. Jack Kelly bade a moving farewell to all his loved ones: "Just remember, when I shove off for greener pastures, or whatever it is on the other side of the curtain, that I do it unafraid...
...firm, West Germany's Süddeutsche Zeitung has called for a "thorough revision" in place of the minor script-surgery performed over the last decade, mainly to excise some anti-Semitic passages. In the Hitler era (when almost all the leading members of the cast were Nazis except Judas), the Sanhedrin was packed with overdrawn heavies, atrociously attacking the blond Christ and his blue-eyed disciples. Somehow this spirit, if toned down, remained...
...together as a trio in 1957 at San Francisco's Purple Onion, they were, says Guard. "a bunch of wild hairs pointing in all directions." At Stanford, Guard-belying his present Groton look-had earned a reputation as a sort of stubble-bearded prebeatnik who was heading nowhere except way out. Reynolds, after graduation from Menlo College, had dedicated his energies to tennis. Shane, who only half-jokingly describes himself as "an alcoholic at 15," had been spending his days counting sand at Waikiki Beach and his nights developing the bourbon elements in what, is now called his "whisky...
Only two important shortcomings characterize this production. The first is the total excision of the first scene, which gives the play its title--doubly inexcusable since the text of the play is, except for The Comedy of Errors, the shortest in the entire canon. The second is the lack-luster playing of the king and his companions (save Richard Waring's well-spoken Antonio), of whom Loring Smith's Alonzo and O. Z. Whitehead's Sebastian are embarrassingly inept. Still, the show is a striking success for William Ball in his directorial debut for the Festival...