Word: leif
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...humane, hilarious, howlingly off-key story of a young English soldier held hostage in a Dublin brothel, is an irreverent stage piece that is thoroughly good fun. The World of Carl Sandburg, an evening of the poet's work more or less acted out by Bette Davis and Leif Erickson, comes off as an agreeable recital, evoking a poet's world that i dramatically mild and a little ostentatiously benign. And at the Phoenix, Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore sails briskly along in the capable hands of its right good captain, Tyrone Guthrie...
...Norman Corwin has adapted it for the stage and Bette Davis and Leif Erickson act it out, Sandburg's world remains dramatically mild, a little ostentatiously benign, its warm iron-kettle juices mingling the flavor of sage and ham. At its best, an evening whose themes move from the cradle to the grave is both folkish and individual. Often it is less folkish than folksy, and at its worst it is cute enough to make J. M. Barrie seem austere. Nor do Corwin's comments help: instead of stressing the pungent and appealing in Sandburg, he hails...
...Schlesinger, the Corporation decides to give out degrees only to Democrats. "We want to even the series," explains one members, "but since the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat, all our awards are posthumous." Other awards go to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Richard III, and Leif Erickson, true discoverer of the continent...