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Morgan then completed casting for the various sketches: John Nathan, looking like the Wild Bull of the Pampas, in an old vaudeville bit set along the river bank; Dan Seltzer, a chalk-faced Death directly out of Bergman; Madeline Rosten, as a frowsy, hip-scratching housewife; Steve Aaron, who bests the Devil (Seltzer) in a game of Monopoly; and Jack Daniels, who doubled as technical director. There is also an unidentified couple making love near the John Weeks bridge...
Morgan is showing "Three Giant Steps" at 8 p.m. and again at 9:30 tomorrow night in Eliot House and is negotiating with Masters in the hope that he may be permitted to screen it in the other Houses. Hopefully he will have success. Seeing Messrs. Nathan, Seltzer, Aaron, et al. prancing over Fresh Pond hill in the Dance of Death as the dusk of sunset closes in, is a vision...
...Should we be alarmed by the difference between the behavior of Airman Powers and of Nathan Hale?" asked Fund-for-the-Republic President Robert Maynard Hutchins. He did not wait for an answer. He has already seen dark "signs that the moral character of American society is changing," and has ordered the fund's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to take a two-year look at the problem. With an assist from such men as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, University of California President Clark Kerr and Jesuit Philosopher John Courtney Murray, Hutchins hopes to turn...
David Follansbee designed a stark and functional set which permitted a great deal of variety in a small area. One of its finest features was allowing John Nathan to remain concealed behind a rock at the top until his last-moment, surprise appearance as Heracles, a triumph of type-casting not soon to be equalled anywhere...
...shopping cart in a Post Road supermarket. Moreover, he knows all about diaper pins, he doles out the petty cash ("We never hit Mom for money," say the boys), and, above all, he types her manuscripts, which, as any writer will understand, makes him a sort of household Nathan Hale. He also criticizes her work as it progresses, sending her back to the typewriter to fill in missing gaps, propelled by such comments as "This woman hasn't spoken in eleven pages; has she died of a wasting disease...