Word: marcuse
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...Iron Cage. Ever since he came down from Oxford's Brasenose College to become a curate in Liverpool eleven years ago, the Rev. Marcus Morris has been trying to bring religion closer to life in just such unorthodox fashion. At first some parishioners were not entirely pleased to find their curate turning up regularly at pubs and cocktail parties, but Morris kept on trying to break down what he calls "the iron cage between the clergy and the people." In the pubs there was also a certain coolness. "But as soon as I convinced them that I came...
...call for David Laurance Chambers, president of Bobbs-Merrill, publishers, to ask for the names of those who knew their Riley lore best in this part of the country where Riley lore springs at you from everywhere. He suggested a Riley historian named Marcus Dickey, who has a studio at Bear Wallow down in the hills of Brown...
With other managements plainly willing to go along with the Actors' Equity ruling that Negroes must be admitted to the audience, would Marcus Heiman's National Theatre come around? The National was losing money showing second-run movies, but Heiman still resisted. It was not the Negro-exclusion issue that bothered him, he indicated, but something else: "We will not permit a labor union to interfere with management or policy...
...General J. Howard McGrath rang up the curtain on a little drama of his own. In Manhattan's federal district court he slapped on a civil suit charging the Messrs. Shubert with monopolizing the U.S. theater in violation of the antitrust law. For good measure, he also sued Marcus Heiman, joint owner with the Shuberts of the United Booking Office, the only agency in the U.S. through which producers can arrange nationwide tours for their shows...
...major pieces had been partly in spired, said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...