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Something Wild, as Hal Scott says in his opening declamation, is about decadence. Scott and his HDC'ers stay well within this theme--no difficult feat with Tennessee Williams--yet accomplished acting makes these three short plays represent more than decadence: each becomes, with skillful handling, an escape into freedom...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: Something Wild | 4/12/1956 | See Source »

Death of a Salesman, "a feat of dramatic sensitivity and talent," makes its last performance tonight at 8:30 on the Sanders Theatre "stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 3/24/1956 | See Source »

Friedberg's feat was to solve a problem, first posed by the late Emil Post of New York's City College in 1944, that has been baffling mathematicians ever since. The problem: Does each non-recursive, recursively enumerable set have the property that every recursively enumerable set is recursive in it? Post himself thought not, but it was not until young Friedberg came along that anyone had the proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Prodigies | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...preparation, however, results in a shocking comprehension which heightens the power of the second act, and leads the audience--as far as is possible--to a complete grasp of Miller's play. To force the ultimate meaning from Willy Loman's death and still preserve its impact is a feat of dramatic sensitivity and talent. The HDC has done...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Death of a Salesman | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

...characteristically Rubinsteinian feat-part grandstand play, part musical passion. "Anyone could do it," he says with grand self-depreciation, "but no one will imitate me because I won't make a penny on it." Out of his share of the receipts Rubinstein was paying for the accompanying symphony orchestra (mostly members of the New York Philharmonic Symphony) under Conductor Alfred Wallenstein. Despite the backbreaking concert schedule, tireless Artur Rubinstein took on two recording sessions, one of them at midnight (he has sold more than 3,000,000 albums for RCA Victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Magnetic Pole | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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