Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Boston Arts Festival, which recently concluded its annual run in the Public Gardens, was the center of more than the usual controversy. As in previous years, the main subject of contention was the exhibit of paintings. Last year, the Festival's painting exhibition was wholly invitational; in rebellion, a group of painters banded together to set up nearby a vying exhibit of their own. This year, the Festival reverted to a policy of holding an open competition; and it instructed the all-artist selection juries "to seek out artistic essence in whatever form or garb it may appear...
...character like medicine and then release him through their pores in involuntary shudders. They are nonetheless eager to try the roles that all agree are the touchstones of an actor's skill and imagination. What is needed is the continuity of acting tradition that comes mainly through repertory groups such as England's Old Vic; Director Tyrone Guthrie has just received a $400,000 foundation grant to start such a group in Minneapolis...
...Caesar in quasi-Fascist uniform, and Olivier's mother-possessed, mob-envenomed Coriolanus ended hanging head downward, like the dead, degraded Mussolini. Moscow has staged Hamlet as an army plot against the King, with Ophelia a court whore who played the mad scene drunk. In Manhattan a group of feminists staged an all-female Lear, and a Polish actor played Shylock as a fat, wisecracking Broadway type. At Stratford, Ont., Tyrone Guthrie mounted a brilliant, modern-dress All's Well That Ends Well in which the almost Ibsenite heroine became a waifish debutante and the play...
...against the best interests of the U.S. Says Frank Wilton, vice president of Detroit's large J. L. Hudson Co.: "It would be the worst possible thing from our point of view. We wouldn't gain anything by playing into the hands of a small group of radicals. We need friends in Japan." The Miami News gave the back of its hand to local boycotters, pointed out that "the very thing the Communists want is loss of the U.S. market to Japan. The logical result would be a Japan allied to the Communist bloc instead of the free...
...with blank checks and myriad products for him to endorse-everything from Pioneer key rings to Man-Tan and Lord West tuxedos. Only a few went away disappointed. Among them: a vacuum cleaner manufacturer who wanted the champ to lie down on a rug in the ad, and a group of prosperous salami makers who wanted Ingo to pose beside a pile of salami (Ingo agreed to do it, but not for hay: he asked...