Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...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, The General. Since then, Chapman has been working on a number of other new plays...
...work in each of its four roles by Mary Graydon, Kathryn Humphreys '60, Joel Crothers '62, and Peter G. Gesell '61. There followed, under John C. Beck '60, an adequate if unexciting traversal of Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates at Pi Eta. In the spring, Agassiz housed the group's intriguingly staged production of a poor dramatization of Voltaire's Candide. Back at Pi Eta, director Hancock had not sufficiently gelled his production of O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars by the opening; but, reportedly, it had greatly improved...
...Cressida), the Mrs. Gibbs of De French, the Mrs. Webb of Dixie Dewitt, the Emily of Barbara Blanchard '60, and the George of Philip D. Harvey '62. This was definitely the finest HDC show since Death of a Salesman in 1956, and the finest show by any Harvard group since Deathwatch...
...Sixth Circuit from Cleveland, Ohio. She held the job for a quarter of a century, until her retirement in 1959, writing more decisions than she herself can count. "I never totaled them up," she says, shaking her head and laughing. "I never had time--whenever I finished with one group of cases, I just went right on to the next batch...
Thus, Kennedy did not gain those crucial votes, and he will have to rely to some extent on the support of Republicans like Clifford Case to break the conservative group's strangle-hold on progressive legislation. In spite of this, the wide Democratic margins in both houses were left intact, and it is hoped that Kennedy will use the full powers of his new office to swing his fellow Democrats behind his own programs. But it is unfortunate that Kennedy himself, and liberals all over the country, did not gain a more decisive majority of the national electorate...